This paper reviews the uses of cultural policy and planning as tools of urban regeneration in western European cities. Following a brief assessment of the evolution of European cultural policy in recent decades, the paper studies the origins and development of the European City/Capital of Culture programme and explores the experience of cities considered to have succeeded in re-imaging and regenerating themselves through cultural activity and special events. The paper ends with a reflection on the notion of cultural planning and its potential as an integrated alternative to urban cultural policy, and offers recommendations for further development within the UK context.

Abstract. New radial-velocity observations of 37 O-and B stars in the very young open cluster NGC 6231 confirm the high frequency of short-period spectroscopic binaries on the upper main sequence. Among the 14 O-type stars, covering all luminosity classes from dwarfs to supergiants, 8 are definitively double-lined systems and all periods but one are shorter than 7 days. Several additional binaries have been detected among the early B-type stars. NGC 6231 is an exceptional cluster to constrain the scenarios of cluster-and binary-star formation over a large range of stellar masses. We discuss the evidences, based on NGC 6231 and 21 other clusters, with a total of 120 O-type stars, for a clear dichotomy in the multiplicity rate and structure of very young open clusters containing O-type stars in function of the number of massive stars. However, we cannot answer the question whether the observed characteristics result from the formation processes or from the early dynamical evolution.

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This paper evaluates the success of the European Union City/Capital of Culture programme as a model for culture-led regeneration by assessing the long-term cultural impacts of Glasgow's experience in 1990. These cultural impacts, seen as distinct from economic, physical and even social impacts, are measured using soft indicators such as media and personal discourses. Assessment of cultural impacts is seldom undertaken and often dismissed as purely anecdotal in comparison with the hard evidence offered by established economic and physical impact evaluations. Here, this view is challenged and an alternative approach is offered in an exposition of the research design and main findings of a qualitative longitudinal study into the development of narratives around Glasgow's image and identity during the period 1986-2003. From this research, it emerges that the effect of regeneration on local images and identities is the strongest and best-sustained legacy of Glasgow's reign as City of Culture 15 years on.

In this paper we present radial velocity measurements &probable members of Trumpler 14, a very young open cluster associated with the Carina Nebula. We have found 4 double-line spectroscopic binaries and 2 single-line spectroscopic binaries. We have succeeded in deriving orbital elements for the SBIs. All the binaries are of potential astrophysical interest and are worth further observational efforts.