Reimaging the pariah city : urban development in Belfast and Detroit
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Reimaging the pariah city : urban development in Belfast and Detroit
Avebury, c1995
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This book examines the pressure that politicians, policy makers and planners are under in Detroit and Belfast to put 'image building' at the centre of urban development. The book also considers the consequences of such pressures. The heightened importance of image generally nowadays, in the formulation of development agendas, is discussed before a focus on two worst case scenarios: Detroit as the 'natural' selection by Hollywood for the urban nightmare "Robocop" films and Belfast which is frequently bracketed together with Beirut by the international media. Image mobilization through physical planning, which in Detroit dates back to the Renaissance Centre of Henry Ford in the early seventies and which in Belfast dates from the revival of the city centre in the eighties, is set in the context of the wider economic and political environment in both divided regions.
Table of Contents
- Planning and promotion - city reimaging in the 1980s and 1990s, Diana S. Fitzsimons
- lipstick on the gorilla? conflict management, urban development and image making in Belfast
- spearheading a new place vision - the Laganside Corporation, Diana S. Fitzsimons
- promoting the city - image, reality and racism in Detroit, William J.V. Neill
- tackling Detroit's rust belt image - industrial policy experimentation in the home of Fordism, William J.V. Neill
- beyond the hype - targeting social deprivation in Belfast's public housing estates, Brendan Murtagh
- image making versus reality - ethnic division and the planning challenge of Belfast's peace lines, Brendan Murtagh
- concluding comments - reclaiming the pariah city, William J.V. Neill.
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