Representing Paisley, Culture and Placemaking: Policy Insights from PhD Research
Culture has become increasingly implicated in regeneration and placemaking in peripheral (sub)urban places in recent years (Richards and Diuf, 2019; Miles, 2020). Whereas discussions about culture-led regeneration and so-called creative cities used to be the reserve of major cities, there is growing evidence that smaller cities and towns such as Paisley are adopting similar strategies. In such places, culture has come to be viewed as an important lever in not only the physical and economic wellbeing of place, but also in achieving more favorable media representations, and ultimately improving area representations (Oakley, 2015). (more…)