Speake, Janet (2017) Urban development and visual culture: Commodifying the gaze in the regeneration of Tigné Point, Malta. Urban Studies, 54 (13). pp. 2919-2934. ISSN 0042-0980
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Abstract
This paper explores some of the hitherto under-researched intersections between urban (re)development, urban planning and visual culture. What emerges is an academic context that, to date, has largely compartmentalised discrete literatures on ‘view’, ‘value of the view’ and cityscape change, (re)Imagineering and (re)scripting). It
shows how materialising processes associated with the commodification of a panoramic view in politico-economic and cultural terms can be used to transform and regenerate along neoliberal lines. It demonstrates how panoramas, when treated as a commodity within the context of neoliberal capitalism, are appropriated, (re)imagined
and (re)scripted by architects and property developers to create high status, residential and commercial space for an affluent élite. As such, panoramas are a mechanism for the acceleration of capital accumulation that inherently create new and reinforce existing spatial inequalities. This study draws on research into the commodification of the view of the historic city of Valletta in the redevelopment of Tigné Point, the largest, most comprehensive regeneration scheme in Malta in recent
years.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is the author's post peer review version of an article that was accepted for publication in Urban Studies. The final, published version is available from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0042098016663610 |
| Keywords: | commodification of the view, financialisation, gaze, Malta, panoramic view, Tigné Point, urban regeneration, urban scripting |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Computer Science and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | Janet Speake |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2016 14:57 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2025 09:48 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/1617 |
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