Liverpool: Capital of Culture

From: Teaching Geography | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Charles Rawding and Lucy Williams offer suggestions for how you can use Liverpool's status as Capital of Culture 2008 as a topical stimulus in the geography classroom.

The designation of Liverpool as joint European Capital of Culture (ECOC) (with Stavanger) offers a topical opportunity to investigate a range of significant contemporary developments in urban geographies, focusing on cities as centres of consumption, leisure and culture. Recent writing in urban geography has highlighted an increased awareness of the role of the city as a setting for 'sensational' developments, placing the urban ...

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