ISBN:
9781788214940
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Urban Worlds
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Cities and towns
;
Culture
;
Sociology, Urban
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.
Abstract:
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Part II Performing culture -- Chapter 5 The infrastructural politics of post-pandemic theatrical performance -- Introduction.
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