Developing a Sense of Place: The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities

How do cultural planners and policymakers work through thearts to create communities? What do artists need to build a sense of place intheir community? To discuss these issues, Developing a Sense ofPlace brings together a series of case studies and success stories, eachdrawn from a specific geographical or socio-cultural context.

Selected for their lasting effect in their local community,the case studies explore new models for opening up the relationship between theuniversity and its regional partners, explicitly connecting creative, criticaland theoretical approaches to civic development. The volume has three sections:Case studies of place-making; Models and methods for developing place-making through the arts; and multidisciplinary approaches to place and contested identities. The sections cover regions in the UK such as Bedford, East Anglia,Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Plymouth and Wakefield, and internationally incountries such as Brazil, Turkey and Zimbabwe.

Developing a Sense of Place offers a range ofviewpoints from, for example, the arts strategist, the academic, thepractice-researcher and the artist. Through its innovative models, fromperforming arts to architectural design, the volume will serve the needs andinterests of arts and cultural policy managers, master planners and artsworkers, as well as students of Human Geography, Cultural Planning, Businessand the Creative Industries, and Arts Administration, at undergraduate and postgraduatelevel.