ABSTRACT
Nottingham-by-sea is a pastiche of the British seaside in a place in England that could not be farther from the ocean. Reading the City aspires to make Nottingham a slightly more interesting place. A far less prominent space in the center of Nottingham is Lace Market Square. It shares its name with a zone of the city that was the first industrial site of its kind to be given protected status as a heritage conservation area. The Lace Market Square features some very important warehouse structures connected to Nottingham's vanished role as a global hub in the sale of high-quality lace. There was a time when people the world over "gazed at the skies through the Nottingham lace of the curtains". Nottingham is the self-declared City of Caves, courtesy of the sandstone hills beneath its streets, which have been hollowed out by centuries of residents. Cultural mapping becomes a valuable tool for charting the "creeping privatisation of public space".
