AI &I | My research on Glasgow
As part my series ‘AI &I’, here you have a first summary of insights about my 20-year research on Glasgow as culture-led regeneration and city branding pioneer in Europe.
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AI &I | What does AI say about my work on… Cities | Events | Culture
A series of conversations with the algorithm I invite you to explore a series of posts about the way AI
The art of Brexit @France24
I am pleased to have featured in #France24 Culture / @encoref24 programme dedicated to discussing the impact of Brexit on
Impacts 18 Symposium Highlights
Find below highlights from our 10 year anniversary symposium, launching Impacts 08 ~ 18 | #Impacts18, the major research programme I
‘If everyone says so …’ Press narratives and image change in major event host cities
I have just published this academic paper within the Urban Studies Journal. You can access it here Abstract This paper
My research trajectory since 1999
I have interrogated cities and event-led cultural policy-making since 1999. I started by revisiting the cultural legacy of the Barcelona
Cultural value, media events & city narratives
Presentation at AIMAC 2015 (Aix-en-Provence & Marseille) My paper abstract, below: Ever since the widespread acceptance that the arts
The cultural value of event-led city regeneration
I am in Helsinki presenting the paper ‘The cultural value of event-led city regeneration. What makes a European Capital of Culture sustainable’ .
Urban Myths?
Urban Myths? Transforming narratives of place via the media representation of one-off international cultural events Paper presented at: Mediated City
Collection of films on my views about Liverpool and cultural regeneration
I have finally had the chance to tidy up the links to a series of films produced under the series
A ‘City of Culture’ initiative for Italy?
Claudio Bocci, Director of Institutional Relations at Federculture and Ravello LAB committee member, has built on the evidence provided by
Approaches to the Newspaper Archive
Reason, M. and Garcia, B. ‘Approaches to the Newspaper Archive: Content Analysis and Press Coverage of Glasgow’s Year of Culture’,
Building on the European Culture Capital as impulse for cultural and creative development
Garcia, B. (2007) ‘Building on the European Culture Capital as impulse for cultural and creative development’, in: Change through the
City of style… and substance
Garcia, B. ‘City of style… and substance. Tracing the legacy of 1990 on Glasgow’s creative communities’, presented at: Creative Clusters
Exchanging culture for style
Garcia, B. “Exchanging culture for style… Glasgow’s image transformation from ‘City of Culture’ into ‘Scotland with Style’ (1983-2004)”, presented at:
De-constructing the City of Culture
Citation: Garcia, B. ‘De-constructing the City of Culture: The long term cultural legacies of Glasgow 1990’, in: Urban Studies (2005:
(2002- 2005) Cities and Culture Project: Understanding the Long-term Legacies of Glasgow 1990, European City of Culture
Lead Investigator: Research funded by the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR, University of Glasgow). From January 2002 to December
Urban Regeneration, Arts Programming and Major Events
Published in: International Journal for Cultural Policy (vol 10, n 1) (pp. 103-118) The potential of arts activity as a
Second to what? On second cities that can lead the world
Garcia, B. (2004) “Second to what? Glasgow’s Cultural Role in Scotland, the UK and beyond” presented in: Second Cities Symposium,
Reinventando Glasgow como Ciudad Europea de la Cultura. Impactos en turismo cultural (1986-2000)
Garcia, B. in: Font, J. (Ed.) Casos de turismo cultural: de la planificación estratégica a la evaluación de productos. Barcelona: