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Tales of the city

By: David Butler

David Butler discusses artists and urban regeneration.

“I have constructed in my mind a model city from which all possible cities can be deduced,” Kublai said. “It contains everything corresponding to the norm...” “I have also thought of a model city from which I can deduce all others,” Marco answered. “It is a city made only of exceptions, exclusions, incongruities, contradictions... ” Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Throughout October Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle have visual arts festivals running through the city, occupying galleries, empty buildings, cafés, public sites. This activity represents a presence of artists within the fabric of those cities. Artists see themselves and their work both as part of what makes each city distinctive and as part of networks of ideas, production and distribution, extending far beyond the city they live in. Each of these cities also has large redevelopment programmes with a mixture of economic, social and cultural agendas. They access funding through partnerships between the private, public and voluntary sectors – but key to them are large amounts of European money with all the attendant bureaucracy of being filtered through central and...

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