Cultural capitals: revaluing the arts, remaking urban spaces
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Main Author: Johnson, Louise C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England Ashgate Pub. ©2009
Series:Re-materialising cultural geography
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Creating value, valuing creativity -- Conceptualising the cultural industries/cultural capitals -- The emergence of cultural capitals -- Glasgow: cultural tourism and design -- Bilbao: the Guggenheim and the post-modern city of spectacle -- Singapore: post-colonial city of cultural heritage and performance -- Geelong as a cultural capital? Down under echoes -- Cultural capitals: re-valuing the arts, re-making sustainable city spaces
This work is about the power of the arts to enhance city images, urban economies & communities. Anchored in academic discussion of the cultural industries, it offers a series of case studies drawn from five countries - Australia, Singapore, Spain, UK, US - to support an argument for the arts contributing to sustainable urban regeneration
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (282 pages)
ISBN:9780754689171
0754689174