Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Cultural Quarter Landscape -- 1.1 Conceptual Confusion: Arts Industry, Heritage Industry, Creative Industries or Cultural Industries? -- 1.2 The Creative Industries Concept -- 1.3 Culture as a Creative Industry -- 1.4 Defining Cultural and Cultural Industry Quarters -- 1.5 The Ingredients for a Successful Cultural Quarter -- 1.6 Criticisms of Cultural Quarters -- Chapter 2: The Cultural Economics of Quarters -- 2.1 Introduction: Culture and Economic Development -- 2.2 The Developmental Role of Culture in Urban Settings -- 2.3 Cultural Quarters: Recreational Spaces or Creative Hubs? -- 2.4 From the Economics of Cultural Quarters to the Cultural Economics of Quarters? -- Chapter 3: The Role and Function of Historic Buildings in Cultural Quarters -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Re-appraisal of Historic Environments -- 3.3 Identification and Rehabilitation -- 3.4 Creating Environments -- Chapter 4: Universities and Cultural Quarters -- 4.1 A brief History of Universities -- 4.2 The Changing Role of Universities and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy -- 4.3 Universities, the Creative Industries and Cultural Quarters -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Cultural Quarter Practice in England -- 5.1 Sheffield Cultural Industries Quarter -- 5.2 The Other Sheffield Cultural Industries Quarter: Sheffield Art Gallery and Museum Trust -- 5.3 A Reinvention of the Craft Industries, Wolverhampton Cultural Quarter -- 5.4 Cultural Entrepreneurship, Newcastle Arts Centre -- 5.5 The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham -- Chapter 6: Features and Benefits of Cultural Quarters, Internationally -- 6.1 The Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria -- 6.2 The Geelong Cultural Precinct, Australia.

6.3 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, Turns to Artists for Its Revitalisation -- 6.4 Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland -- 6.5 Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Island -- Chapter 7: Putting the Principles into Practice: A Cultural Quarter for a Proud Northern Town -- 7.1 Politics: The Wider City Region and the Manchester Shadow -- 7.2 Local Policy Frameworks -- 7.3 The Bolton Cultural Policy Concept -- 7.4 Bolton Public Sector Cultural Provision -- 7.5 Further and Higher Education, With Some Reference to Schools -- 7.6 Bolton Cultural Industry Statistics -- Chapter 8: Key Influencing Factors in Establishing a Cultural Quarter -- 8.1 The Town Centre Factor, an Architectural Inheritance and Zoning -- 8.2 Creative Business Growth as a Contribution to Wealth Creation -- 8.3 The Existence and Use of Council Cultural Assets -- 8.4 The Existence of a Cultural Infrastructure and the Cultural Tourism Influence -- 8.5 Graduate Retention and Added Value Jobs -- 8.6 The Information Technology Phenomenon -- 8.7 The Importance of Cultural Diversity and the Bolton Profile -- 8.8 The Manchester Shadow -- Chapter 9: The Nuts and Bolts: Outputs, Resources, Procurement Routes and Management -- 9.1 Summaries of Outputs -- 9.2 Procurement Routes -- 9.3 Management Structures to Deliver the Development -- 9.4 The Availability of Public Resources to Support a Cultural Quarter Development -- Chapter 10: Public Sector Decision-Making: Two Crescents: One Place? -- 10.1 No Action -- 10.2 Adopt a Single-Cluster Site -- 10.3 Adopt a Designated Cultural Quarter, Two Crescents - One Place -- 10.4 A Generic Structural Model -- 10.5 The Purpose of a Cultural Quarter -- 10.6 How Can This Be Achieved? -- Chapter 11: The Composition of the Cultural Quarter in Practice -- 11.1 Activity: Learning.

11.2 Activity: Information, Networks and Digitisation -- 11.3 Activity: Performing Arts -- 11.4 Activity: Tourism and Hotels -- 11.5 Activity and Meaning: Cultural Organisations, Voluntary Groups and Societies -- 11.6 Activity and Meaning: Creative Businesses and Ateliers -- 11.7 Activity and Placemaking: Small Businesses and Shops -- 11.8 A Sense of Place: The Marketplace -- 11.9 A Sense of Place, Space and Fabric: The Town Hall and Public Events -- 11.10 A Sense of Place, Space and Fabric: Street Furniture, Signage, Nature and the Environment -- 11.11 Movement: Transport -- Conclusion -- 12.1 How Do The Cultural Quarters Compare? -- 12.2 Critical Success Factors and Risks -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1 - The Bolton Town Centre Action Plan.