The cultural infrastructure of cities / edited by Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore.

Other author Bain, Alison L., 1974-
Other author Podmore, Julie A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2023.
Descriptionviii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
Culture.
Cultural industries.
Infrastructure (Economics)

SeriesUrban worlds.
Contents Introduction: configuring urban cultural infrastructure / Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore -- Part I - producing culture -- Clustering cultural infrastructure in districts / Alison L. Bain -- The relational infrastructure of open creative labs / Suntje Schmidt -- 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 -- The infrastructural politics of post-pandemic theatrical performance / Megan A. Johnson and Marlis Schweitzer -- The performative contingency of cultural infrastructure / Jessie Stein -- Embodying cultural infrastructure in Carnival / Martha Radice -- Youthful city-making through peripheral cultural infrastructure / Antonio Moya-Latorre -- Part III - consuming culture -- Hawker culture and its infrastructure: experiences and contestations in everyday life / Lily Kong and Aidan Wong -- Aestheticizising hipster retail infrastructure: from Neapolitan to cosmopolitan / Bryan Mark -- Crafting alternative urban fashion infrastructure in a digital and pandemic age? / Taylor Brydges, Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi -- Embodying arts festivals as infrastructural transformation of places / Bernadette Quinn -- Part IV - collecting culture -- Infrastructuring museums / Friederike Landau-Donnelly -- Becoming socio-cultural infrastructure: librarizing practices in public libraries / Rianne van Melik -- Queer counter-topographies: LGBTQ+ community-based archives as urban cultural infrastructure / Julie A. Podmore -- Conclusion: reconfiguring urban cultural infrastructure / Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore and Chan Arun-Pina.
Abstract "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. 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-282) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Genre/formElectronic books.
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