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On place-making, participation and public art: the Gorbals, Glasgow

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  • Venda Louise Pollock
  • Ronan Paddison

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Public art has become part of the rhetoric of regeneration and within this participation has come to play an increasingly significant role. Public art, through its aesthetic and process, is perceived as integral to place-making within regeneration practice, affording cohesion to otherwise disaffected and disillusioned communities and distinctiveness to reformed places. Based on the example of a regenerated inner-city neighbourhood in Glasgow, the Gorbals, this paper questions the role of public participation in the installation of public art. How the regeneration of the neighbourhood unfolded was heavily influenced by new urbanist ideals in which place-making techniques were instrumental in repositioning the perception of the neighbourhood for its residents as well as externally. We argue that within a complex process of regeneration there are limits to how public participation can be built into the process of installing public art, reflecting in turn the different routes through which places become meaningful.

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  • Venda Louise Pollock & Ronan Paddison, 2014. "On place-making, participation and public art: the Gorbals, Glasgow," Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 85-105, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjouxx:v:7:y:2014:i:1:p:85-105
    DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2013.875057
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    1. Andrew Cumbers & Chris Philo, 2019. "Ronan Paddison (1945–2019): An Appreciation of an Academic Life," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(13), pages 2611-2615, October.
    2. Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar & Jurian Edelenbos, 2020. "Social Impacts of Place-Making in Urban Informal Settlements: A Case Study of Indonesian Kampungs," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(6), pages 1-30, June.

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