1st Edition

Cities of Culture A Global Perspective

By Deborah Stevenson Copyright 2014
182 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

175 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging cliché. The proliferation of local blueprints for cultural planning/creative cities has been... Read more

Introduction.  Part I  1. Culture  2. Citizenship  3. Place  Part II  4. Creative Nations  5. Assets, Ambience and Amenity  6. Creative Cities on the ‘Margins’  7. Beyond the State?  8. Culture, Place and Citizenship.  Bibliography

Biography

Deborah Stevenson is Professor of Sociology and Urban Cultural Research in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.