Cultural Infrastructure of Cities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the relationship between the urban and its cultures. It expands our understanding of the concept of urban cultural infrastructure and highlights the foundational role of culture to the materiality and sociality of urban life and the governance of cities.The book begins with a theoretical overview of the cultural and infrastructural turns in urban studies scholarship. It then explores definitions of cultural infrastructure and its “hard” and “soft” dimensions before critically considering the vulnerabilities generated in the cultural sector by the Covid-19 pandemic. Chapters are organised in four thematic sections focusing on aspects of producing, performing, consuming and collecting culture, which feature detailed case studies from 17 cities across the global North and South.This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of urban studies, but also to policy-makers planning and creating cultural infrastructures as well as those working in cultural institutions and creative industries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt:606 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Urban Worlds
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781788214919

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Regional planering inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Alison L. Bain is Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Ontario. She is co-editor of Urbanization in a Global Context (second edition 2022) and author of Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs (2013).Julie A. Podmore is Affiliate Assistant Professor in Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University, Montreal and Professor in Geosciences at John Abbott College, Montreal. She is the coeditor of Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies (2019).

Recensioner i media

Examining the diverse forms of infrastructure that facilitate cultural practice and make cities distinctive, this interdisciplinary collection eschews currently dominant but limited explanations of cultural infrastructure grounded in economics and the creative industries by introducing broader insights from across the arts and social sciences. In so doing, it provides policymakers, researchers, and students alike with wide-ranging opportunities to engage with fresh perspectives and to probe the complexities of urban cultural infrastructure as it is lived, made and governed.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: configuring urban cultural infrastructureAlison Bain and Julie PodmorePart I: Producing culture2. Clustering cultural infrastructure in districtsAlison Bain3. The relational infrastructure of Open Creative LabsSuntje Schmidt4. Affordable studio space as cultural infrastructure: land trusts and the future of creative citiesRhian Scott, Luke Dickens and Phil HubbardPart II: Performing culture5. The infrastructural politics of post-pandemic theatrical performanceMegan A. Johnson and Marlis Schweitzer6. The performative contingency of cultural infrastructureJessie Stein7. Embodying cultural infrastructure in CarnivalMartha Radice8. Youthful city-making through peripheral cultural infrastructureAntonio Moya-LatorrePart III: Consuming culture9. Hawker culture and its infrastructure: experiences and contestations in everyday lifeLily Kong and Aidan Wong10. Aestheticizing hipster retail infrastructure: from Neapolitan to cosmopolitanBryan Mark11. Crafting alternative urban fashion infrastructure in a digital and pandemic ageTaylor Brydges, Deborah Leslie and Norma Rantisi12. Embodying arts festivals as infrastructural transformation of placesBernadette QuinnPart IV: Collecting culture13. Infrastructuring museumsFriederike Landau-Donnelly14. Becoming socio-cultural infrastructure: librarizing practices in public librariesRianne van Melik15. Queer counter-topographies: LGBTQ+ community archives as urban cultural infrastructureJulie Podmore16. Conclusion: Reconfiguring urban cultural infrastructureAlison Bain, Julie Podmore and Chan Arun-Pina