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Building in public: creative work in a changing city

What happens when creative practice and urban change occupy the same streets?

Culture Cadence Editorial · 8 Aug 2026

Cardiff Bay architecture and the Pierhead Building

Cities tell stories through what they preserve, what they demolish and what they make room for next. Creative communities are often asked to animate places while having little control over how those places change.

The interesting question is not whether culture can transform a city. It is who gets to remain when transformation arrives.

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