ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a deconstruction of certain myths that have become associated with the process of urban regeneration in the 1980s and 1990s in British cities. It explains the multi-faceted representation of the process of urban regeneration and the ways in which this representation has established a definitional discourse of urban change. The chapter examines both the anatomy of this discourse and its implications. It deals with the related notions of power and geography in the representation and re-imagination of place. The chapter argues that the representation of locales involves the production or transformation of a cultural system of space internal to the locale, in which an imagined geographical order of centre and periphery are achieved through the processes of enclosure and disclosure. It also argues that in remapping and redefining its own internal geographies, the city is implicated in a concomitant relocation within external systems of cultural space.
