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The ‘Liverpool model(s)’: cultural planning, Liverpool and Capital of Culture 2008

Connolly, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4278-1960 2013. The ‘Liverpool model(s)’: cultural planning, Liverpool and Capital of Culture 2008. International Journal of Cultural Policy 19 (2) , pp. 162-181.

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Abstract

Within the UK, the ‘Liverpool model’ is being celebrated as the new template for Capital of Culture festivals, and culture led urban regeneration in general. This paper will question this celebration and argue that there are, in fact, two ‘Liverpool models’: the first, outlined in its bid and developed within its initial planning strategy, represented the apogee of a New Labour informed ‘cultural planning’ framework for urban development; the second, developed post-2008 within the impact analysis Impacts08, is a more sober and realistic reflection of the role of culture in urban regeneration. This paper will demonstrate how this first model, while politically expedient and rhetorically seductive, was both theoretically unstable and practically unrealizable. Its subsequent abandonment represents an indictment of cultural planning as a nostrum for the complex structural, social and economic problems of the post-industrial city. Keywords: cultural planning; Capital of Culture; Liverpool08; social instrumentalism; economic instrumentalism; New Labour cultural policy

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Uncontrolled Keywords: cultural planning, Capital of Culture, Liverpool08, social instrumentalism, economic instrumentalism, New Labour cultural policy
Publisher: Routledge
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 28 June 2017
Date of Acceptance: 1 November 2011
Last Modified: 06 Nov 2023 20:01
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/101879

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