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AND TOWNS

Three AHRC-funded projects led by researchers at the University of Southampton developing understandings of culture, towns, recovery and pride.

PROJECTS

NEIGHBOURING DATA

Building on the creative methods developed during Feeling Towns, this 2023 project addresses key research challenges relating to the generation, connection and visualisation of data about place. It seeks to make clear, research-informed recommendations for using place-based data in towns and small cities.

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FEELING TOWNS

Drawing on the findings of Towns and the Cultural Economies of Recovery, this 2022 project brought together a community of practice from a range of sectors and geographies to better understand and evidence the correlation between place attachment, civic pride and the health of local cultural ecologies.

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TOWNS AND THE CULTURAL ECONOMIES OF RECOVERY

This scoping project, which ran through 2021, focused on the role of culture in town regeneration plans. It explored the complex economic infrastructures of the creative, cultural and heritage industries and the roles they play in developing the broader, changing economies of towns.

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