Culture - led Urban Development in Liepaja and Cesis: Planning for Urban Shrinkage
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Term
4. Term
Publication year
2018
Submitted on
2018-06-07
Pages
154
Abstract
Nowadays, the significance of culture and culture-driven urban development is becoming increasingly pronounced. This is because of its expected contribution, which offers both economic and social benefits for the local context. In this thesis benefits of culture-led urban development are considered within the widely common context of urban shrinkage, a context that is evident in many cities of Post-socialist Europe. Nevertheless, the meaning of culture-led urban development as a planning strategy applied in the context of urban shrinkage is ambiguously perceived within planning literature. Culture-led urban development is seen as a strategy characteristic for growth orientation, as well as a way, which refers to the so-called management of urban shrinkage. By choosing two Latvian cities that constitute the context of Post-socialist Europe - Cēsis and Liepāja – both having pursued a relatively new culture-led urban development and being arenas of urban shrinkage, this research tries to understand the planning approach represented by the local concert halls and unfold their critical aspects by employing the multi-causal perspective on culture-led development. Therefore, a following research question is posed: How do the culture-led urban developments in Liepāja and Cēsis reflect the local planning approach for urban shrinkage in Post - socialist context and what do their critical aspects represent?
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