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Tales from the Riverbank: place-marketing and maritime heritages
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posted on 2002-03-01, 00:00 authored by D Atkinson, Steven Cooke, D SpoonerAlthough place-marketing and image-enhancement are increasingly common elements of Western urban policy, when applied to specific locales, these abstract theories have to negotiate local conditions and contexts. This paper discusses the ways attempts to place-market the city of Hull, England, prompted debates surrounding questions of place, memory and heritage. Despite being Britain's leading fishing port in the 20th century, Hull's place-marketing strategy elided this past in favour of a sanitised vision of a modern, post-industrial city. These debates crystallised around a 1999 planning inquiry over the proposed redevelopment of the erstwhile fishing dock. While the proposals contained some reference to the dock's role as a site of place-memory, this was deemed insufficient by local protest groups and politicians who argued for a more appropriate memorial to Hull's fishing community. Eventually, the redevelopment proposals were accepted, but not before attendant debates exposed both the depth of local sentiments over place-memories and fishing heritage, and also the difficulties of negotiating inclusive and plural heritage landscapes.
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International journal of heritage studiesVolume
8Issue
1Pagination
25 - 40Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
London, EnglandISSN
1352-7258eISSN
1470-3610Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2002, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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