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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785370303321

Autore

Roodhouse Simon

Titolo

Cultural quarters [[electronic resource] ] : principles and practice / / edited and written by Simon Roodhouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, U.K., : Intellect, 2010

ISBN

1-282-89610-5

9786612896101

1-84150-438-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

306.0942

Soggetti

City planning - England

City planning - Ireland

City planning - Austria - Vienna

Urban renewal - England

Urban renewal - Ireland

Urban renewal - Austria - Vienna

Cultural property - England

Cultural property - Ireland

Cultural property - Austria - Vienna

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Cultural Quarter Landscape; Chapter 2: The Cultural Economics of Quarters; Chapter 3: The Role and Function of Historic Buildings in Cultural Quarters; Chapter 4: Universities and Cultural Quarters; Chapter 5: Cultural Quarter Practice in England; Chapter 6: Features and Benefits of Cultural Quarters, Internationally; Chapter 7: Putting the Principles into Practice: A Cultural Quarter for a Proud Northern Town; Chapter 8: Key Influencing Factors in Establishing a Cultural Quarter

Chapter 9: The Nuts and Bolts: Outputs, Resources, Procurement Routes and ManagementChapter 10: Public Sector Decision-Making: Two Crescents: One Place?; Chapter 11: The Composition of the



Cultural Quarter in Practice; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix 1 - The Bolton Town Centre Action Plan

Sommario/riassunto

This definitive book provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion concerning the principles of urban design and planning. To examine these issues, the book presents several case studies drawn from Northern England, Ireland and Vienna to position the emergence of specific cultural areas within a historical and social context and the economics of maintaining the respective districts.Extending this investigation, the author provides an explicit analysis of Bolton Borough Council's moves towards establishing a cultural sector in the town centre, with references