Revisiting the creative city: culture and regeneration in post-industrial Glasgow

Responding to calls for the real, rather than rhetorical, ‘creative city’, this chapter revisits cultural regeneration in Glasgow during the post-industrial period when Glasgow was vaunted as an exemplar of how culture could reorientate the economy and identity of a city. Taking as its point of departure the typology of culture and regeneration put forward by Evans and Shaw in their comprehensive review of the evidence relating to The Contribution of Culture to Regeneration in the UK (2004): culture-led regeneration; cultural regeneration; and, culture and regeneration, it draws on specific examples to complicate these narratives and posit that a reconceptualization of the ‘creative city’ during the post-industrial era is necessary to fully understand the ‘post-creative’ city which, Malcolm Miles (2103) suggests, might arise from new alliances between art work and everyday cultures.