Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global world is acted out most articulately in the world′s urban hubs – through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles of governance. Looking at the city through its internal dynamics, the book examines how governance and cultural policy play out in a national and international framework.
Making a truly global contribution to the literature, the editors bring together a truly international and highly-respected bevy of scholars. In doing so, they skilfully steer debates beyond the city as an economic powerhouse, to cover issues that fully comprehend a city′s cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning.
Innovative in its approach and content, this book is ideal for students, scholars and researchers interested in sociology, urban studies, cultural studies, and public policy.
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Foreword – Saskia Sassen
Introduction – Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Michael Hoelscher and Helmut K. Anheier
PART ONE: METROPOLITAN CULTURAL POLITICS, POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE
Overarching Issues
Cities as Geopolitical Spaces for the Global Governance of Culture – Katharine Sarikakis
Communication Networks, Cities and the Informal Economies – Ramon Lobato
Challenges of Governance in Multi-Ethnic Cities – Phil Wood
Cities and Universities: A Virtual Cultural Policy Nexus – Dragan Klaic
Cities, Culture and Sustainable Development – Nancy Duxbury, Catherine Cullen and Jordi Pascual
City Branding – Lily Kong
Competing Cities and Spectacularizing Urban Landscapes – Davide Ponzini
The Creative Cities Discourse: Production and/or Consumption? – Stuart Cunningham
The Creative City: Compelling and Contentious – Charles Landry
City Experiences
The Production of Culture: Abu Dhabi′s Urban Strategies – Yasser Elsheshtawy
Amsterdam: A Multi-Cultural Capital of Culture – Simin Davoudi and Wil Zonneveld
Creative City, City Marketing, Creative Industries and Cultural Policy: Challenges for Antwerp – Annick Schramme and Katia Segers
′Creative Governance′ in Berlin? – Janet Merkel
Brazzaville: A Global Village of African Culture – Patrice Yengo
Spectacularizing Fès – Justin Mc Guinness
Reshaping, Installing, Pioneering, Spearheading… Re-aalignment of Istanbul – Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins
Johannesburg: Investing in Cultural Economies or Publics? – Edgar Pieterse and Kim Gurney
Rich but Divided … the Politics of Cultural Policy in London – Kate Oakley
The Cultural Mapping of L′viv – Ihor Savchak and Linda Knudsen Mc Ausland
Marseille S-Provence 2013: Cultural Capital, but for What Kind of Europe and under Which Globalization? – Ferdinand Richard
Medellin: Tales of Fear and Hope – Octavio Arbeláez Tobón
Melbourne and Brisbane: The Claims of Suburbs – Terry Flew and Mark Gibson
Mexico City: Cultural Policies, Governance and Civil Society – Lucina Jiménez
Mumbai: Historic Preservation by Citizens – Abha Narain Lambah
New York City: City Culture as Public Display – David Halle and Louise Mirrer
Paris: A Process of Metropolitanization – Stephen W Sawyer and Mathias Rouet
São Paulo: Rich Culture, Poor Access – Maria Carolina Vasconcelos-Oliveira
Shanghai: Images of Modernity – Justin O′Connor and Xin Gu
Torino: A Change of Skin and More – Luca Dal Pozzolo
Vancouver: The Enigmatic Emerging Cultural Metropolis – Catherine Murray and Tom Hutton
Venice, Reloaded? A Tale of Urban Life (and Death) – Pier Luigi Sacco
Cultures and Cities: Some Policy Implications – Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Ethnographic Snapshots: Visions of Cities – Mieka Ritsema
PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Yudhishthir Raj Isar is an independent analyst, advisor and public speaker who straddles different worlds of cultural theory, experience and practice. He is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. He has also been maître de conference at Sciences Po, Paris. Professor Isar is co-editor of the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE). He is a trustee of civil society cultural organisations and consultant to international organisations and foundations and Past President of Culture Action Europe. Earlier, at UNESCO, where he served from 1973 to 2002, he was notably Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development and Director of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture.