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1 online resource |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 111 |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 111.
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| Contents |
Cover; Cities of Culture; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Creative cities: themes and theories; 1 Culture; Introduction; Art and culture; Industries of creativity; Understanding urban cultures; Conclusion; 2 Citizenship; Introduction; Recreating the civic; The cosmopolitan citizen; Creative citizenship; Including the citizen; Conclusion; 3 Place; Introduction; Understanding place; Place, meaning, identity; Mapping and imagining place; Conclusion |
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Part II Cultural planning: cities, states and practices4 Creative nations: the United Kingdom and Australia; Introduction; Remembering the GLC; Cultural planning in Australia; Creative culture; Planning creativity; Renewing Australia; 'Pop-up' Britain; Conclusion; 5 Assets, ambience and amenity: the United States and Canada; Introduction; Spaces of liveability; This town is 'our town'; The art of place; Creative cities and cultural capitals; Becoming a 'property developer'; Conclusion; 6 Creative cities on the 'margins': Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore; Introduction |
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Creating the 'Asian century''Better city, better life'; Art, politics and urban development; Imagining a 'global city'; Renaissance city; Conclusion; 7 Beyond the state: UNESCO and the European Union; Introduction; Creating Europe; Cultures of capital; Eurocult(ural) cities; Narratives of urban culture; Uniting nations, curating urban cultures; Conclusion; 8 Culture, place and citizenship; References; Index |
| Summary |
Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the 'creative city' has become an urban imaging cliché. The proliferation of local blueprints for cultural planning/creative cities has been remarkable, while supra-state bodies such as the European Union and UNESCO are also fostering the use of culture in strategies to revive cities and urban economies and to brand places as 'different' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Community life.
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Community arts projects.
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City planning.
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Communities.
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community art.
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POLTICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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Communities
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City planning
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Community arts projects
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Community life
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1134084358 |
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9781134084357 |
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1299792510 |
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9781299792517 |
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9780203519806 |
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0203519809 |
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