El Raval and Mile End

A Comparative Study of Two Cultural Quarters between Urban Regeneration and Creative Clusters

Bibliographic Data

ID23199641
AuthorsDiane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Diane‐gabrielle Tremblay (0000-0002-3343-9146, Université de Sherbrooke, corresponding author), Angelo Battaglia (Université de Sherbrooke)
Year2012
Volume4
Issue1
Publication date2012-02-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Geography and Geology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1916-9779 • E-ISSN: 1916-9787
PublisherCanadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5539/jgg.v4n1p56
OpenAlexW2158306946
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited29

This research aims at clarifying the development of creative and cultural clusters embedded in two emerging artistic neighbourhoods in Barcelona and Montreal. This comparative study intends to consider these quarters as new cultural centralities located in ex-industrial areas and it demonstrates how the cultural regeneration as well as urban planning are two fundamental dimensions for re-structuring these post-modern cities. After the decline of the industrial sectors it will be necessary to regenerate and to reconvert these dismissed spaces and marginalized quarters in order to define a new urban identity which organizes the urban space in terms of systemic and inclusive approaches. We have studied these phenomena and we have tried to highlight how two similar cities are leading to establish a new functionality in terms of socio-economic, cultural and territorial development.

Aesthetics · Business · Civil engineering · Creative Cities · Creative City · Creativity · Economic geography · Environmental planning · Geography · Identity (music) · Order (exchange) · Political science · Regeneration (biology) · Regional science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Structuring · Urban planning · Urban regeneration · Urban space · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

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