Overview

Although 'culture' has been used as an expression of both civic pride and economic vitality since Victorian times, it has, in the last 43 years, enjoyed a renaissance as many city governments in both the USA and Europe have developed cultural strategies as ameans of encouraging locale conomic development and as a tool for city marketing.  Inpractice, the experience of cultural regeneration has been characterized by a wide variety of approaches with no standard or easily dened process being apparent.  It has frequently taken the form of a general arts- and culture-led strategy for regeneration which is carried out in particular parts of a city using a variety of techniques.  This variability of approach ismirrored by a variability in success, with many city governments uncertain whether or to what extent the culture of an area has been developed.

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