London’s urban planning needs to be aware of the rapidly evolving nature of art forms if it is to house truly 21st century cultural quarters, says Adrian Ellis.
Rapid urbanisation and globalisation have a tendency to reduce cities to a samey blur; and given the fierce competition for inward investment, tourists and knowledge workers, political and civic leaders are always looking for ways to refine and assert their own cities’ identities. Where those have a strong cultural base – London, Paris, New York, Montreal – leaders flaunt that base and burnish it. But citizens’ expectations of their cultural districts – of buildings, of what goes on in them and of the spaces in between them... Keep reading on Centre For London
Rapid urbanisation and globalisation have a tendency to reduce cities to a samey blur; and given the fierce competition for inward investment, tourists and knowledge workers, political and civic leaders are always looking for ways to refine and assert their own cities’ identities. Where those have a strong cultural base – London, Paris, New York, Montreal – leaders flaunt that base and burnish it. But citizens’ expectations of their cultural districts – of buildings, of what goes on in them and of the spaces in between them... Keep reading on Centre For London