20th century modernist design and architecture in the NW of England, from Runcorn’s lost utopia
to Blackpool Casino, from Forton Services to Manchester’s UMIST campus.
If you love the 20th century architecture and design of the NW, from Cheshire to Cumbria, Blackpool to
Blackburn… Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and the rest, the modernist magazine is just the ticket,
we regularly feature articles, interviews, news, reviews and travel.
We’ve handpicked a team of experts, and dilettantes alike, to bring you news, musings and delightful
titbits about modernist architecture and design in the NW.
http://www.the-modernist-mag.co.uk/
All over Europe, cities are faced with the challenge of using cultural resources to re-position their
city in an increasingly culturally and economically diversified European space. Related to this is a
clear recognition of the growing importance of cultural resources for economic and community
development. This produces new opportunities and challenges for local cultural planning and management.
In order to fully exploit the innovative and supportive role of culture in European urban development,
it will be necessary to develop a new socially and culturally sensitive professionalism, able to cross
the boundaries between the arts, design, urban and spatial planning, public policy and the market,
artistic creativity and cultural management.
The MA in European Urban Cultures offers a specialist programme aimed at graduate students from Europe
and elsewhere with undergraduate degrees in subject areas such as the social sciences; cultural and
leisure studies; art, design and architecture; urban theory and planning; cultural marketing and
management. The course is also targeted at professionals and administrators eager for the latest
experiences, ideas and insights in urban cultural policy.
