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full listing (Lead Investigator) Research funded by the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR, University of Glasgow). [Project Webpage] Research on the long-term legacies of Glasgow 1990 European City of Culture was part of a wider research programme, within the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, the Cities and Culture Project. This programme of research examined existing models of governance in the contemporary city so as to identify the opportunities and challenges they provide to support and sustain urban cultural investment. The project was led by Beatriz García with support from Matthew Reason (research assistant) and Adrienne Scullion (CCPR Academic Director). Find below
a brief summary of the main research questions. Research questions The ‘Cities and Culture Project’ explored notions of cultural policy and governance in the European City to contextualise existing and potential legacies of championing culture in an urban context. The research combined an interest in understanding economic impacts with a focus on exploring processes and explaining relations. The main aim was to develop a body of knowledge that allows to identify and interpret how urban provisions for culture are sustained or lost in the long-term –over a ten year period – and how these provisions relate to the development of cultural activity in the city. Phase one of the project looked at Glasgow post 1990 as a case study. The process to bid and fund the hosting of the European City of Culture title in 1990 was seen as a key example of urban championing of culture and is thus used as the main focus of the research. The legacy of this investment and its context of governance was explored through analysing the transformation of the city’s image from the early 1980s through 1990 and its aftermath, to election of Tony Blair’s government in 1997 and Scottish devolution in 1999. The context of major shifts in local government of the mid 1990s, the post 1997 change of UK government and the ongoing debate around Scottish home rule which culminated with the devolved government of 1999 was an essential frame for our study. The research questioned how perceptions and images of Glasgow complemented or competed with discourses of national (be that Scotland or UK) cultural and political life.
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