Cultural quarters and regeneration: The case of Wolverhampton

Quieter, Safer, Cheaper: Planning for a more inclusive evening and night-time economy

“…As McCarthy (2005) notes, each major town or city centre now has a 'cultural quarter', some formed 'organically', others more formally planned or 'designated'. Whilst academic debate has tended to focus on distinctions between cultural production and cultural consumption as a defining characteristic of individual cultural quarters (Newman & Smith, 2000;Montgomery, 2003), less attention has been paid to styles and modes of consumption, that is in distinguishing between food and drink related consumption and attendance at theatres, live performance venues and art-house cinemas.…”

Scenes, Quarters and Clusters: the Formation and Governance of Creative Places in Urban China

“…Secondly, they provide recognition that is of a more symbolic value. On one hand, the civilising aura of arts and culture may alleviate anger, tension and rebellions; in some cases they are responsible for rebuilding districts that have encountered socials divisions (McCarthy, 2005;Montgomery, 2004); on the other hand, arts and cultural activities animate the streets and help to brand the city. In Europe, the branding is more or less related to the annual coronation of the European Capital of Culture 3 .…”

Quartering the City in Discourse and Bricks: Articulating Urban Change in a South African Enclave

“…The urban quarter is a space that is the locus for the symbolic framing of culture (Bell and Jayne 2004), a space that offers possibilities for identity production and consumption, and a space that enables commodification of the urban experience. The recent debates on quartering primarily reference European (Bell and Jayne 2004;Evans 2005;McCarthy 2005;Roodhouse 2010) and North American (Marcuse 1989) exemplars and thus offer little that speaks to quartering African cities and their unique spatial contexts. In spite of this, theorization of quartering as a discursive and differentially constructured process (Bell and Jayne 2004) sheds light on De Waterkant as a space for the symbolic framing of culture, and a deliberate site of place-making.…”

“…In an environment of limited scholarship on urban change at the neighbourhood scale (Visser 2014), a quartered view of De Waterkant lends finer resolution to understanding urban change in this context. At the same time, while cultural quarters play a central role in the development of cities (Bell and Jayne 2004;McCarthy 2005;Roodhouse 2010), the mechanisms behind their articulation and change are less well understood.…”