The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities

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Professor Alison L. Bain (York University, Ontario) Professor Julie A. Podmore (Concordia University)

The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities

Professor Alison L. Bain (York University, Ontario), Professor Julie A. Podmore (Concordia University)

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Agenda Publishing
07 August 2023

Art Treatments & Subjects; Material culture; Urban communities; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Urban Worlds

"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.

This book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of urban studies, but also to policy-makers planning and creating cultural infrastructures as well as those working in cultural institutions and creative industries."

Edited by: Professor Alison L. Bain (York University Ontario), Professor Julie A. Podmore (Concordia University)
Imprint: Agenda Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 26mm
ISBN: 9781788214919
ISBN 10: 1788214919
Series: Urban Worlds
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 07 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alison L. Bain is Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Ontario. She is co-editor of Urbanization in a Global Context (second edition 2022) and author of Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs (2013). Julie A. Podmore is Affiliate Assistant Professor in Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University, Montreal and Professor in Geosciences at John Abbott College, Montreal. She is the coeditor of Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies (2019).

Reviews for The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities

Examining the diverse forms of infrastructure that facilitate cultural practice and make cities distinctive, this interdisciplinary collection eschews currently dominant but limited explanations of cultural infrastructure grounded in economics and the creative industries by introducing broader insights from across the arts and social sciences. In so doing, it provides policymakers, researchers, and students alike with wide-ranging opportunities to engage with fresh perspectives and to probe the complexities of urban cultural infrastructure as it is lived, made and governed. -- Deborah Stevenson, Professor of Sociology and Urban Cultural Research, Western Sydney University