256 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive ways of life - are seen to be differently used in or... Read more
Part 1: Definitions 1. Cities 2. Cultures Part 2: Interactions 3. Cities producing culture 4. Culture re-producing cities Part 3: Culture industries and cultural policies 5. The culture industries 6. Cities of Culture Part 4: Interventions 7. Cultural cross-currents 8. Cultural identities 9. Permeable cultures
Biography
Malcolm Miles is Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Group and co-ordinates the doctoral research methods programme for the Faculty of Arts.
