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Limits to Culture - Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art (Hardcover)
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Limits to Culture - Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art (Hardcover)
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How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural'
urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent
against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning.
In the 1980s, notions of the 'creative class' were expressed though
a cultural turn in urban policy towards the 'creative city'.
De-industrialisation created a shift away from how people
understood and used urban space, and consequently, gentrification
spread. With it came the elimination of diversity and urban
dynamism - new art museums and cultural or heritage quarters lent a
creative mask to urban redevelopment. This book examines this
process from the 1960s to the present day, revealing how the notion
of 'creativity' been neutered in order to quell dissent. In the
1960s, creativity was identified with revolt, yet from the 1980s
onwards it was subsumed in consumerism, which continued in the
1990s through cool Britannia culture and its international
reflections. Today, austerity and the scarcity of public money
reveal how the illusory creative city has given way to reveal its
hollow interior, through urban clearances and underdevelopment.
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