The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bain, Alison L., 1974- (Editor ), Podmore, Julie A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2023.
Colección:Urban Worlds
Temas:
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
Culture.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes.
urban sociology.
cities.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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

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