Cultural & heritage quarters

• What are cultural heritage quarters?

  Urban areas that have been developed with the driving force linked to cultural aspects (e.g. museums and art galleries)
• Cities develop a cultural quarter to encourage growth and revitalise economy in art and creative industries
• Heritage quarters focus on the history on the area based around small scale industries
• Most successful quarters tend to be associated with a product e.g. Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
• How is Cardiff Bay an example of a cultural and heritage quarter?

  • Dr Who experience
  • Welsh Assembly
  • large civil engineering projects
  • 2km^2 freshwater lake
  • 13km of waterfront
  • Wales Millennium Centre
  • all of these have continued to stimulate new commercial, tourist and leisure developments