The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity. Presenting a global set of case studies that span five continents and 22 cities, the essays in this book advance our understanding of how the dynamic interplay between economic and political context, institutional arrangements, and social networks affect urban cultural policy-making and the ways that these policies impact urban development and influence urban governance. The volume comparatively studies urban cultural policy-making in a diverse set of contexts, analyzes the positive and negative outcomes of policy for different constituencies, and identifies the most effective policy directions, emerging political challenges, and most promising opportunities for building effective cultural policy coalitions. The volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the political process of urban cultural policy and urban development studies around the world. It will be of interest to students and researchers interested in urban planning, urban studies and cultural studies.
Author(s): Carl Grodach, Daniel Silver (eds.)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: London and New York
Tags: Culture; Cultural Studies; Urban Policy; Cultural Policy; City Planning
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The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy: Global perspectives
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Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Urbanizing cultural policy
Part I Urban cultural policy as an object of governance
1 A different class: Politics and culture in London
2 Chicago from the political machine to the entertainment machine
3 Brecht in Bogotá: How cultural policy transformed a clientelist political culture
4 Notes of discord: Urban cultural policy in the confrontational city
5 Cultural policy and the state of urban development in the capital of South Korea
Part II Rewriting the creative city script
6 Creativity and urban regeneration: The role of La Tohu and the Cirque du Soleil in the Saint-Michel neighborhood in Montréal
7 City image and the politics of music policy in the “Live Music Capital of the World”
8 “To have and to need”: Reorganizing cultural policy as panacea for Berlin’s urban and economic woes
9 Urban cultural policy, city size, and proximity
Part III The implications of urban cultural policy agendas for creative production
10 The new cultural economy and its discontents: Governance innovation and policy disjuncture in Vancouver
11 Creating urban spaces for culture, heritage, and the arts in Singapore: Balancing policy-led development and organic growth
12 Maastricht – from treaty town to European Capital of Culture
13 Rethinking arts policy and creative production: The case of Los Angeles
Part IV Coalition networks, alliances, and identity framing
14 When worlds collide: The politics of cultural economy policy in New York
15 What’s in the Fridge?: Counter-democratic mobilization in post-industrial urban “cultural” development
16 Governing the entertainment machine: Urban cultural policy in Spain
17 Planned and spontaneous arts development: Notes from Portland
18 Local politics in the creative city: The case of Toronto
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