HEIDENREICH M and PLAZA, B (2013) Renewal through culture? The role of museums in the renewal of industrial regions in Europe. EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES, (ahead-of-print), 1-15. ABSTRACT: Bilbao has become a role model for the regeneration of declining urban and industrial regions. The debate on the so-called Bilbao effect showed that rundown industrial cities and regions might profit from culture-based development strategies, even if successful urban regeneration cannot be induced by only one flagship project without an appropriate local and regional context. Based on the comparative analysis of six, in general recently founded, museums in five countries ..(...).. |