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Culture-led regeneration and the contestation of local discourses and meanings: the case of European maritime port cities

Tommarchi, Enrico; Jonas, Andrew E.G.

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Enrico Tommarchi



Abstract

Culture-led regeneration, understood as a range of policies using cultural activity as a catalyst for urban regeneration, has been widely implemented by many European cities. The interest of local businesses and politicians in these processes seems undiminished despite the various systemic crises hitting European cities. In the meantime, the ways in which culture-led regeneration and its promoters interact with, shape and manipulate local discourses and meanings have become critical for its successful implementation. Drawing upon the literature on the politics of urban development, this paper looks at how culture-led regeneration promulgates, negotiates and manipulates local discourses and meanings. It takes the example of European maritime port cities, where these processes have often served as a means to address the challenges associated with shifting meanings and practices surrounding port-city relationships. We argue that culture-led regeneration schemes operating in port cities in the twenty-first century strive to engage directly with local discourses and meanings associated with past economic activities but, in doing so, renegotiate them, producing hybridized models of regeneration that mirror and align with the agenda of culture-led urban growth coalitions.

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Tommarchi, E., & Jonas, A. E. (online). Culture-led regeneration and the contestation of local discourses and meanings: the case of European maritime port cities. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2387944

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 29, 2024
Online Publication Date Aug 16, 2024
Deposit Date Aug 2, 2024
Publicly Available Date Aug 17, 2025
Journal Urban Geography
Print ISSN 0272-3638
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2387944
Keywords Culture-led regeneration; European port cities; Local discourse; Port-city relationships
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4783298

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.





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