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Urban Worlds Ser.: Cultural Infrastructure of Cities by Julie A. Podmore (2024, Hardcover)

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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. 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.

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ISBN-101788214919

ISBN-139781788214919

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Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameCultural Infrastructure of Cities

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHuman Geography, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Social History, General

Publication Year2024

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorJulie A. Podmore

SeriesUrban Worlds Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2023-513130

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsExamining 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., What does it mean to look at the culture of cities through an infrastructure lens? This book's perspective is a powerful antidote against the instrumentalisation of culture to power urban economies and markets. The book maps a landscape of cultural production in cities making visible the complex and often contingent arrangements that make urban cultures alongside the many ways in which spaces of cultural production are reinvented and appropriated. Short, illuminating section introductions and four illustrations of architectural inspiration from Chan Arun-Pina bring together a carefully curated collection of essays. Cultural infrastructures become dynamic, changing, performed, alive. The deliberate engagement with the challenges of cultural production through the pandemic and in the post-pandemic period reemphasises the ever-changing language of cultural production. This book will appeal to artists, performers, curators, planners, entrepreneurs, infrastructure managers, and students and scholars of urban cultures, to look at their city anew and recognise urban culture in-the-making, full of hope and potentiality.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal307.76

Table Of Content1. Introduction: configuring urban cultural infrastructure Alison Bain and Julie Podmore Part I: Producing culture 2. Clustering cultural infrastructure in districts Alison Bain 3. The relational infrastructure of Open Creative Labs Suntje Schmidt 4. Affordable studio space as cultural infrastructure: land trusts and the future of creative cities Rhian Scott, Luke Dickens and Phil Hubbard Part II: Performing culture 5. The infrastructural politics of post-pandemic theatrical performance Megan A. Johnson and Marlis Schweitzer 6. The performative contingency of cultural infrastructure Jessie Stein 7. Embodying cultural infrastructure in Carnival Martha Radice 8. Youthful city-making through peripheral cultural infrastructure Antonio Moya-Latorre Part III: Consuming culture 9. Hawker culture and its infrastructure: experiences and contestations in everyday life Lily Kong and Aidan Wong 10. Aestheticizing hipster retail infrastructure: from Neapolitan to cosmopolitan Bryan Mark 11. Crafting alternative urban fashion infrastructure in a digital and pandemic age Taylor Brydges, Deborah Leslie and Norma Rantisi 12. Embodying arts festivals as infrastructural transformation of places Bernadette Quinn Part IV: Collecting culture 13. Infrastructuring museums Friederike Landau-Donnelly 14. Becoming socio-cultural infrastructure: librarizing practices in public libraries Rianne van Melik 15. Queer counter-topographies: LGBTQ+ community archives as urban cultural infrastructure Julie Podmore 16. Conclusion: Reconfiguring urban cultural infrastructure Alison Bain, Julie Podmore and Chan Arun-Pina

SynopsisCities 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHT151