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On The Brandwagon
Episode 2 of 5
Jonathan Meades ponders the effects of the expensive craze of city regeneration and using 'landmark' buildings to get it.
The Liverpool garden festival gave us the word 'regeneration'. Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao combined with this to create a fashion. Every city wanted a slice of regeneration and used 'landmark' buildings to get it. Jonathan Meades ponders this expensive craze and the effects of supposedly regenerated inner cities.
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Fri 15 Jun 200700:55
