City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living.  It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important.  They fo

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Tara Brabazon Editor

City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

GeoJournal Library Volume 108 Managing Editor:

Daniel Z. Sui, Columbus, Ohio, USA Founding Series Editor:

Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France

Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6007

Tara Brabazon Editor

City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

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Editor Tara Brabazon School of Teacher Education Charles Sturt University Bathurst, NSW Australia

ISSN 0924-5499 ISBN 978-94-007-7234-2 ISBN 978-94-007-7235-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013949199 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

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Introduction: Sliced Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tara Brabazon

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Part I Disconnection 2

Glasgow the Brand: Whose Story Is It Anyway? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mhairi Lennon

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My State Had a Mining Boom and All I Got Was This Lousy Train-Line . . . . . . . . . . .