Cities of culture : a global perspective / Deborah Stevenson
- Author
- Stevenson, Deborah, 1958-
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xv, 162 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 -- pt. II Cultural planning: cities, states and practices -- 4.Creative nations: the United Kingdom and Australia -- Introduction -- Remembering the GLC -- Cultural planning in Australia -- Creative culture -- Planning creativity -- Renewing Australia -- `Top-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 -- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780415587280 (hardback)
041558728X (hardback) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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