TY - JOUR AU - Miles, Malcolm PY - 2000/02/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Vistas of the post-industrial city. JF - on the w@terfront. Public Art.Urban Design.Civic Participation.Urban Regeneration JA - Onthew@terfront VL - 0 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/waterfront/article/view/18723 SP - 2-6 AB - <p>Waterfront development has become a sign for the post-industrial city. Cases such as Baltimore’s Harbor District, London Docklands, Cardiff Bay, and Barcelona’s Port Vell represent the transformation of districts of industrial decline into areas of new<br />prosperity, as redundant industrial buildings are re-coded as sites of culture. But if the post-industrial city is a post-modern site of abundance, its benefits are unevenly distributed; centres of affluence construct margins of deprivation. Just as public art lent a veneer of cultural value to urban development in the 1980s, so the re-coding of industrial buildings as sites of culture in the ’90s contributes to a continuing aestheticisation of the city which affirms a dominant spatial order. What strategies, then, are appropriate for art in post-industrial cities?</p> ER -