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Author Wåhlin, Nils, author

Title Urban strategies for culture-driven growth : co-creating a European capital of culture / Nils Wåhlin, Maria Kapsali, Malin H. Näsholm and Tomas Blomquist
Published Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016

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Contents 1. Co-creation and the city -- Part I: the planners' view -- 2. The planning process -- 3. The 'cultural turn' in urban design -- Part II: the view from the action nets -- 4. The organizer's view: exploring emergent project action nets -- 5. The insider-participant view: common dualities on urban design and program organization -- 6. The public view: analysis of the narratives in the local press -- 7. Building a milieu for city marketing and branding -- The vignette collection -- Part III: the achievement -- 8. Comparisons with other European capitals of culture -- 9. Co-creating cities: future challenges
Summary Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful book outlines potential avenues through which culture and creativity can raise the imaginative capability of citizens and harness opportunities tied to what the book calls 'culture-driven growth'. Building on three years of observations, interviews and research the authors argue that a 'strategy-as-practice' perspective can reveal how strategy making is enabled or constrained by organizational and social practices. The authors reveal how the 'sweet-spot' of city regeneration occurs where urban and cultural planning are aligned. They then evaluate the practice of 'co-creation' within organizing bodies and investigate the extent to which its success depends on a fusion of top-down rules and bottom-up action. Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth will appeal to international scholars and students in organization studies, geography, city governance and planning, urban design and urban and regional development. Policymakers and planners will also find it to be a valuable resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 17, 2016)
Subject City planning -- 21st century
City planning -- Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning
City planning -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Kapsali, Maria, author.
Näsholm, Malin H., author
Blomquist, Tomas, author.
ISBN 9781783479382
1783479388