Clare Melhuish
Biographic Data
| ID | 115325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clare Melhuish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | Melhuish |
| SIGNATURE | MELHUISH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Buckinghamshire New University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5357-8023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Decolonizing Planning Perspectives
The concept of decolonization has received significant critical attention across academic disciplines, including planning history, leading some scholars to caution against its conceptual stretching. Within Planning Perspectives, a leading journal in Planning History however, the term is relatively absent, signalling opportunities for future content, such as special issues, wider geographical scope, and engagement with multilingualism. Although mu…
A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure’
The role of formal architecture and urbanism in representing and reinforcing hegemonic power structures, ideologies, and identities is well established. It has been extensively critiqued both in relation to European nationalism and colonialism, and to explore how state agencies have deployed urban planning and architecture to re-imagine and represent national and postcolonial identities following the end of empires and the re-calibration of Weste…
The Real Modernity that Is Here
This paper explores how Computer Generated Images (CGIs) have enabled the visualisation and negotiation of a new urban imaginary in the production of a large-scale urban development project in Doha, Qatar. CGIs were central not only to the marketing but also the design of Msheireb Downtown. Our study of their production and circulation across a transnational architectural and construction team reveals how their digital characteristics allowed for…
Producing place atmospheres digitally
Computer-generated images have become the common means for architects and developers to visualise and market future urban developments. This article examines within the context of the experience economy how these digital images aim to evoke and manipulate specific place atmospheres to emphasise the experiential qualities of new buildings and urban environments. In particular, we argue that computer-generated images are far from ‘just’ glossy repr…
Arts-led regeneration in the UK
This paper reviews the rhetoric of arts-led regeneration in the UK and reflects on its evidence base. We show how the notion of arts-led regeneration as a tool to combat social exclusion in our inner cities developed momentum for policy makers under a New Labour government, culminating in its status as a quasi-social fact. We critique this quasi-social fact and underline its limited and problematic evidence base. We offer suggestions for construc…
The masons of Djenné– By Trevor H.J. Marchand
Interior Insights
Michael Landy's Semi-Detached
Lucy Orta
Lucy Orta holds the first Rootstein Hopkins Chair at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London
Towards a Phenomenology of the Concrete Megastructure
The Brunswick Centre is a concrete megastructure, comprising a shopping precinct and flats, built in central London between 1968 and 1972. This article, presenting a re-reading of its spatial characteristics, is part of a larger project concerned with revealing the layers of cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract modernism. It sets out to develop a reinterpretation of the building through a phenomeno…
Producing place atmospheres digitally
Computer-generated images have become the common means for architects and developers to visualise and market future urban developments. This article examines within the context of the experience economy how these digital images aim to evoke and manipulate specific place atmospheres to emphasise the experiential qualities of new buildings and urban environments. In particular, we argue that computer-generated images are far from ‘just’ glossy repr…
Arts-led regeneration in the UK
This paper reviews the rhetoric of arts-led regeneration in the UK and reflects on its evidence base. We show how the notion of arts-led regeneration as a tool to combat social exclusion in our inner cities developed momentum for policy makers under a New Labour government, culminating in its status as a quasi-social fact. We critique this quasi-social fact and underline its limited and problematic evidence base. We offer suggestions for construc…
The Real Modernity that Is Here
This paper explores how Computer Generated Images (CGIs) have enabled the visualisation and negotiation of a new urban imaginary in the production of a large-scale urban development project in Doha, Qatar. CGIs were central not only to the marketing but also the design of Msheireb Downtown. Our study of their production and circulation across a transnational architectural and construction team reveals how their digital characteristics allowed for…
Towards a Phenomenology of the Concrete Megastructure
The Brunswick Centre is a concrete megastructure, comprising a shopping precinct and flats, built in central London between 1968 and 1972. This article, presenting a re-reading of its spatial characteristics, is part of a larger project concerned with revealing the layers of cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract modernism. It sets out to develop a reinterpretation of the building through a phenomeno…
A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure’
The role of formal architecture and urbanism in representing and reinforcing hegemonic power structures, ideologies, and identities is well established. It has been extensively critiqued both in relation to European nationalism and colonialism, and to explore how state agencies have deployed urban planning and architecture to re-imagine and represent national and postcolonial identities following the end of empires and the re-calibration of Weste…
Michael Landy's Semi-Detached
Lucy Orta
Lucy Orta holds the first Rootstein Hopkins Chair at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London
Towards a Phenomenology of the Concrete Megastructure
The Brunswick Centre is a concrete megastructure, comprising a shopping precinct and flats, built in central London between 1968 and 1972. This article, presenting a re-reading of its spatial characteristics, is part of a larger project concerned with revealing the layers of cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract modernism. It sets out to develop a reinterpretation of the building through a phenomeno…
Interior Insights
The masons of Djenné– By Trevor H.J. Marchand
Arts-led regeneration in the UK
This paper reviews the rhetoric of arts-led regeneration in the UK and reflects on its evidence base. We show how the notion of arts-led regeneration as a tool to combat social exclusion in our inner cities developed momentum for policy makers under a New Labour government, culminating in its status as a quasi-social fact. We critique this quasi-social fact and underline its limited and problematic evidence base. We offer suggestions for construc…
Producing place atmospheres digitally
Computer-generated images have become the common means for architects and developers to visualise and market future urban developments. This article examines within the context of the experience economy how these digital images aim to evoke and manipulate specific place atmospheres to emphasise the experiential qualities of new buildings and urban environments. In particular, we argue that computer-generated images are far from ‘just’ glossy repr…
The Real Modernity that Is Here
This paper explores how Computer Generated Images (CGIs) have enabled the visualisation and negotiation of a new urban imaginary in the production of a large-scale urban development project in Doha, Qatar. CGIs were central not only to the marketing but also the design of Msheireb Downtown. Our study of their production and circulation across a transnational architectural and construction team reveals how their digital characteristics allowed for…
A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure’
The role of formal architecture and urbanism in representing and reinforcing hegemonic power structures, ideologies, and identities is well established. It has been extensively critiqued both in relation to European nationalism and colonialism, and to explore how state agencies have deployed urban planning and architecture to re-imagine and represent national and postcolonial identities following the end of empires and the re-calibration of Weste…
Decolonizing Planning Perspectives
The concept of decolonization has received significant critical attention across academic disciplines, including planning history, leading some scholars to caution against its conceptual stretching. Within Planning Perspectives, a leading journal in Planning History however, the term is relatively absent, signalling opportunities for future content, such as special issues, wider geographical scope, and engagement with multilingualism. Although mu…
Sociology (7 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Public Spaces through Art (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)