ABSTRACT
The case study concerns the quayside in Newcastle and nearby Gateshead city in England. Newcastle upon Tyne is a city in the county of Tyne and Wear, founded in the Roman period. Newcastle is located on the north bank of the River Tyne, the port of which developed in the 1500s and for a long time was one of the leading shipbuilding and repair centres in the world. In the 1970s, the industries suffered a major crisis and a subsequent closure of many of them, with a consequent economic decline. Since the early 1990s, culture has taken on an increasingly important role in urban policies until it becomes one of the main elements around which to transform the territory through public investments aimed at involving the population in activities related to art and culture. The Vision for Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne 2010–2030 is based on a shared framework of general strategic policies and more site-specific policies.
