ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to chart the rise, dissemination and limits of a specific model of urban governance, namely the use of 'culture' to further urban regeneration. Cultural planning, cultural regeneration, culture-led regeneration, and culture with regeneration are all identified variants of the use of culture to address the issues confronting contemporary cities, most notably around the transitions, enforced or not, away from the Fordist forms of manufacturing and associated patterns of stable, mass employment. The intertwining of creative industries, cultural funding and urban regeneration is vital to understanding how urban cultural policy travels. M. G. Connolly speaks of two distinct models within the Liverpool experience, that of community involvement, and subsequently the superseding of this involvement by an elite, consumer-driven, regeneration project. This chapter seeks to shed light on the case of the Liverpool Model to demonstrate the complexity of a broader trend.
