ISBN:
9781788214940
,
1788214943
,
9781788214933
,
1788214935
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 p.)
Series Statement:
Urban Worlds
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The cultural infrastructure of cities
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Sociology, Urban
;
Cities and towns
;
Culture
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Infrastruktur
Abstract:
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: configuring urban cultural infrastructure -- Introduction -- The cultural turn in urban studies -- Culture in the urban "infrastructural moment" -- Theoretical fragments of urban cultural infrastructure -- Cohering and defining urban cultural infrastructure -- Covid-19 and the fragility of cultural infrastructure -- Configuring urban cultural infrastructure -- Conclusion -- Part I Producing culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 2 Clustering cultural infrastructure in districts -- Introduction -- An (in)formal infrastructure to cluster culture: the cultural district in theory -- Cultural districts in practice: from Berlin to Leipzig and Toronto to Hamilton -- Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik -- Baumwollspinerei, Tapetenwerk, Westwerk and Kunstkraftwerk -- Distillery District and 401 Richmond -- James Street North -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The relational infrastructure of open creative labs -- Introduction -- Open creative labs as shared spaces of work and experimentation
Description / Table of Contents:
Open creative labs as open infrastructure -- Producing iterations of openness and closure in open creative labs -- Producing culture in open creative labs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Affordable studio space as cultural infrastructure: land trusts and the future of creative cities -- Introduction -- Artistic production in the face of gentrification -- Creative land trusts: sustaining cultural infrastructure? -- Defining affordability -- Demonstrating the value of artists' studios to potential partners -- Artists and studio groups engaging with the CLT -- Creating a "third estate" -- Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Performing culture -- Chapter 5 The infrastructural politics of post-pandemic theatrical performance -- Introduction -- Infrastructure/politics/performance -- Infrastructural adjustments -- or, how did theatres pivot? -- Transposition of theatrical form -- Reconceptualization of theatre's spatial relations -- Reimagination of theatre's service to community -- Infrastructural transformation in three domains -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The performative contingency of cultural infrastructure -- Infrastructure of dominance -- What counts as cultural infrastructure?
Description / Table of Contents:
Scaling a cultural infrastructure (to maybe tear it down) -- A network of community arts and cultural centres: Feierwerk Gelände in Munich -- Siphoning power -- Dancing at Plug in Beats -- Feedback loops -- Transformation (or containment?) -- Conclusion: contingent cultural infrastructure -- Chapter 7 Embodying cultural infrastructure in Carnival -- Introduction -- Situating Carnival in New Orleans -- Embodying Carnival -- Negotiating Carnival -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Youthful city-making through peripheral cultural infrastructure -- Introduction -- Peripheral cultural explosion
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Migration, remoteness and diversity
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781788214933/type/BOOK
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