"There's so much hand-wringing from cultural quarters about the sad size of the audience for poetry," he said.

The aim is to create a leading European and national focus and cultural quarter for the creative media, information and communications industries.

Fowlers Yard forms part of the growing cultural quarter within Durham City.

It is a shopping, business, retail and cultural quarter, containing many key arts and tourist venues.

Since 2001, boosted by increasing numbers of tourists, the city council has developed a number of cultural quarters.

The site sits on Quarry Hill, in the heart of the city's arts and cultural quarter.

He's impacting people in their cultural quarters and in their everyday lives.

As such, the library and square form a central part of Brighton's "cultural quarter".

The area fell into decline in the last century, but more recently it has re-emerged as a dedicated 'cultural quarter' of Belfast.

"It's a drinking mile rather than a cultural quarter," he said.