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 affected by
the development of particular cities. The book does not mask the
complexity of this, but explains it in ways accessible for
undergraduates.
The book begins with introductory chapters on the concepts of a
city and a culture (the latter in the anthropological sense as well
as denoting the arts), citing cases from modern literature. The
book then moves from a critical account of cultural production in a
metropolitan setting to the idea that a city, too, is produced
through the characteristic ways of life of its inhabitants. The
cultural industries are scrutinised for their relation to such
cultures as well as to city marketing, and attention is given to
the European Cities of Culture initiative, and to the hybridity of
contemporary urban cultures in a period of globalisation and
migration. In its penultimate chapter the book looks at incidental
cultural forms and cultural means to identify formation; and in its
final chapter, examines the permeability of urban cultures and
cultural forms. Sources are introduced, positions clarified and
contrasted, and notes given for selective further reading.
Playing on the two meanings of culture, Miles takes an unique
approach by relating arguments around these meanings to specific
cases of urban development today. The book includes both
criticalcomment on a range of literatures - being a truly
inter-disciplinary study - and the outcome of the author's field
research into urban cultures.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City |
| Release date: |
April 2007 |
| First published: |
June 2007 |
| Authors: |
Malcolm Miles
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
244 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-35442-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
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| LSN: |
0-415-35442-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780415354424 |
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