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Urban Culture

Author : Alan C Turley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131734264X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Urban Culture written by Alan C Turley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the city's impact on how we make and consume all types of culture—art, music, literature, architecture, film, and more—not only illustrating the effects the urban environment has on the production of culture, but, at times, how culture has influenced the city. Theoretically diverse, Urban Culture employs the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and the major paradigms in Urban Sociology and Urban Studies: Urban Ecology, Marxism, New Urbanism, Socio-Psychological Perspective, Structuralists/Econometrics, and Urban Elites/ Entrepreneurs. Urban Terrorism is also addressed to provide a timely examination of the cultural impact and sociological effects of terrorism in an urban setting.

Cities And Urban Cultures

Author : Stevenson, Deborah
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335208444
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Cities And Urban Cultures written by Stevenson, Deborah and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the book demonstrates that the "real" city of physicality and struggle and the "imagined" city of representations are entwined in the construction of urban cultures.

Captured by the City

Author : Blagovesta Momchedjikova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443854638
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Captured by the City written by Blagovesta Momchedjikova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines-Sociology, Anthropology, Performance Studies, Architectural History, Linguistics, Media Studies, Documentary Poetics, to name just a few-intersect here to help shape a unique field of inquiry-that of Urban Culture Studies. This multi-perspectival approach grants us a more wholesome understanding of how we inscribe cities and how cities inscribe us in return: as we plan, inhabit, remember them-in reality or in dreams.

The City and the Senses

Author : Dr Alexander Cowan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479609
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The City and the Senses written by Dr Alexander Cowan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we experience a city in terms of the senses? What are the inter-relations between human experience and behaviour in urban space? This volume examines these questions in the context of European urban culture between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the institutions and ideologies relating to the range of sensual experience and its interpretation. Spanning pre-industrial and modern cities in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, it enables the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities in what is still an evolving urban experience. Divided into sections corresponding to the five senses: noise, vision, taste, touch and smell, each sections allows for comparisons which act as reminders that the experience of the city was a multi-sensual one, and that these experiences were as much intellectual as physical in their nature.

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures

Author : Melvin Ember
Publisher : Grolier, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures written by Melvin Ember and published by Grolier, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on over 240 major cities around the world including demographic information, history, politics, public systems, culture, social life and future outlook.

The City of the Senses

Author : K. DeFazio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230370357
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The City of the Senses written by K. DeFazio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.

Cities and Urban Cultures

Author : Deborah Stevenson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335227988
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Cities and Urban Cultures written by Deborah Stevenson and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-04-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *What is distinctive about urban life? *What key trends have shaped the contemporary city? *How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies? This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary approach and use of case material, the book demonstrates that the 'real' city of physicality and struggle and the 'imagined' city of representations are entwined in the construction of urban cultures. Starting with a comparison of the rural and the urban, the book considers ways of imagining the city and of conceptualising urban cultures. It goes on to investigate the implications of several pivotal urban and cultural trends, such as the use of the arts and local cultures in city re-imaging, and the ways in which modernism, postmodernism and globalisation have shaped the built environment and the orientation of academic enquiry. Also examined is the way in which representations of the urban landscape in film, literature, art, and popular texts, have informed dominant ideas about the way certain city spaces - including city centres, urban waterfronts, and so-called 'global cities' - should look, function and 'feel'. Designed as a text for undergraduate courses in cultural studies, sociology and wider social science, this book traces the development of urban environments from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates the nature of urban life.

Festival Cities

Author : John R. Gold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000318907
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Festival Cities written by John R. Gold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges of economic and social change, as well as repositioning cities within competitive global networks. In this timely and thought-provoking book, John and Margaret Gold provide a reflective and evidence-based historical survey of the processes and actors involved, charting the ways that regular festivals have now become embedded in urban life and city planning. Beginning with David Garrick’s rain-drenched Shakespearean Jubilee and ending with Sydney’s flamboyant Mardi Gras celebrations, it encompasses the emergence and consolidation of city festivals. After a contextual historical survey that stretches from Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, there are detailed case studies of pioneering European arts festivals in their urban context: Venice’s Biennale, the Salzburg Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Edinburgh’s International Festival. Ensuing chapters deal with the worldwide proliferation of arts festivals after 1950 and with the ever-increasing diversifycation of carnival celebrations, particularly through the actions of groups seeking to assert their identity. The conclusion draws together the book’s key themes and sketches the future prospects for festival cities. Lavishly illustrated, and copiously researched, this book is essential reading not just for urban geographers, social historians and planners, but also for anyone interested in contemporary festival and events tourism, urban events strategy, urban regeneration regeneration, or simply building a fuller understanding of the relationship between culture, planning and the city.

Urban Culture

Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415304986
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Urban Culture written by Chris Jenks and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes key pieces from Peter Ackroyd, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Homi Bhaba, Charles Dickens, Fredrick Engles, Paul Gilroy, Thomas Hobbes, Max Weber, George Simmel, Ian Sinclair, Edward W. Soja, Gayatri Spivak, Nigel Thrift, Virginia Woolf, Sharon Zukin, and many others. The material is arranged thematically highlighting the variety of interests that coexist (and conflict) within the city. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered along with urban experiences such as walking, politics & protest, governance, inclusion and exclusion. Urban pathologies, including gangsters, mugging, and drug-dealing are also explored. Selections cover cities from around the globe, including London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Bombay and Tokyo. A general introduction by the editor reviews theoretical perspectives and provides a rationale for the collection. This collection offers a valuable research tool to a broad range of disciplines, including: sociology; anthropology; cultural history; cultural geography; art critical theory; visual culture; literary studies; social policy and cultural studies.

Port Towns and Urban Cultures

Author : Brad Beaven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483164
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Port Towns and Urban Cultures written by Brad Beaven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of ‘sailortown’ culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book’s exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies.

Engagement in the City

Author : Leigh N. Hersey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793633916
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Engagement in the City written by Leigh N. Hersey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engagement in the City: How Arts and Culture Impact Development in Urban Areas provides readers with numerous examples of ways that the arts can contribute to community development. Through the diverse backgrounds of its contributing authors - representing artists, art educators, and public administration scholars – the role of arts is explored as a contributing factor in strengthening communities. The book shows that the arts have the potential to positively impact a wide variety of development interests, including economic, education, health, social capital, and of cultural. The book provides strategies and techniques for implementing successful arts-based projects, whether it be through public art initiatives, service-learning opportunities, or the development or cultural districts. Cross-sectoral collaboration is a key in many of these projects, making the book beneficial for artists and community leaders who seek ways to work together to improve their cities.

Urban Culture

Author : Alan C Turley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317342658
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Urban Culture written by Alan C Turley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the city's impact on how we make and consume all types of culture—art, music, literature, architecture, film, and more—not only illustrating the effects the urban environment has on the production of culture, but, at times, how culture has influenced the city. Theoretically diverse, Urban Culture employs the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and the major paradigms in Urban Sociology and Urban Studies: Urban Ecology, Marxism, New Urbanism, Socio-Psychological Perspective, Structuralists/Econometrics, and Urban Elites/ Entrepreneurs. Urban Terrorism is also addressed to provide a timely examination of the cultural impact and sociological effects of terrorism in an urban setting.

The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy

Author : Carl Grodach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415683785
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy written by Carl Grodach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity. Presenting a global set of case studies that span five continents and 22 cities, the essays in this book advance our understanding of how the dynamic interplay between economic and political context, institutional arrangements, and social networks affect urban cultural policy-making and the ways that these policies impact urban development and influence urban governance. The volume comparatively studies urban cultural policy-making in a diverse set of contexts, analyzes the positive and negative outcomes of policy for different constituencies, and identifies the most effective policy directions, emerging political challenges, and most promising opportunities for building effective cultural policy coalitions. The volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the political process of urban cultural policy and urban development studies around the world. It will be of interest to students and researchers interested in urban planning, urban studies and cultural studies.

The Cultures of Cities

Author : Sharon Zukin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557864376
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book The Cultures of Cities written by Sharon Zukin and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-01-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are constantly negotiated in the city's central spaces - the streets, parks, shops, museums, and restaurants - which are the great public spaces of modernity. While cultural gentrification may contribute to making our cities both safer and more civilised places to live, it has its darker side. Beneath the perceptions of "civility" and "security" nurtured by cultural strategies, Zukin shows an aggressive private-sector bid for control of public space, a relentless drive for expansion by art museums and other non-profit cultural institutions, and an increasing redesign of the built environment for the purposes of social control. Tying these developments to a new "symbolic economy" based on tourism, media and entertainment, Zukin traces the connections between real estate development and popular expression, and between elite visions of the arts and more democratic representations. Going beyond the immigrants, artists, street peddlers, and security guards who are the key figures in the symbolic economy, Zukin asks: Who really occupies the central spaces of cities? And whose culture is imposed as public culture? Combining cultural critique, interviews, autobiography and ethnography, The Culture of Cities is a compelling account of the public spaces of modernity as they are transformed into new, more troubling landscapes.

Urban Diversity

Author : Caroline Kihato
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Urban Diversity written by Caroline Kihato and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world’s urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast-changing urban contexts. The contributors identify specific areas of contestation, including public spaces and facilities, governmental structures, civil society institutions, cultural organizations, and cyberspace. The contributors also explore the socioeconomic and cultural mechanisms that can encourage inclusive pluralism in the world’s cities, seeking approaches that view diversity as an asset rather than a threat. Exploring old and new public spaces, practices of marginalized urban dwellers, and actions of the state, the contributors to Urban Diversity assess the formation and reformation of processes of inclusion, whether through deliberate actions intended to rejuvenate democratic political institutions or the spontaneous reactions of city residents.

Medieval Urban Culture

Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Studies in European Urban Hist
ISBN 13 : 9782503577425
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Urban Culture written by Andrew Brown and published by Studies in European Urban Hist. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the specificity of the urban culture in western Europe during the period c.1150-1550. Since the mid-twentieth century, many studies have complicated the association, traditionally made, between the medieval growth of towns and the birth of a modern, secular world; but few have given any attention to what actually made urban culture 'urban'. This volume begins by placing medieval 'urban culture' within its spatial context, to consider how urban conditions determined the perception and representation of the city-dweller. Contributors examine a variety of urban cultures, from the political to the artistic, from London and Bruges to Florence and Venice, and beyond Europe. They show how urban culture involved a process of interaction with other discourses (royal, noble, ecclesiastical) and that it was not monolithic: the relationship between urban environments and the cultures they generated were hybrid, fluid and dynamic.

Intercultural Urbanism

Author : Dean Saitta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786994119
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Urbanism written by Dean Saitta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban built environment: the planning of space and the design of architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta uses a largely untapped body of knowledge-the archaeology of cities in the ancient world-to generate ideas about how public space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography (including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America's most desirable and fastest growing 'destination cities' but one that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and gentrification), Saitta's book offers an invaluable new perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning professionals.