| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Urban Worlds |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban.
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Cities and towns.
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Culture.
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urban sociology.
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cities.
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Cities and towns
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Culture
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Sociology, Urban
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bain, Alison L., 1974- editor.
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Podmore, Julie A., editor
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| ISBN |
1788214943 |
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9781788214933 |
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1788214935 |
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9781788214940 |
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