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Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of
Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners’
equitable placekeeping efforts. A new concept, equitable
placekeeping describes the inclination of historically marginalized
community members to steward their neighborhood’s development,
improve local amenities, engage in social and cultural production,
and assert a mutual sense of self-definition – and the efforts of
SEA artists to aid them. Emerging from in-depth interviews with
eight Southern California artists and teams, Co-Creative reveals
how artists engage community members, sustain relationships, and
defy the presumption that residents cannot speak for themselves.
Drawing on these artists and theoretical analysis of their praxes,
the book explicates equitable community engagement by exploring not
just the creative projects but also the underlying phenomena that
inspire and sustain them: community, engagement, relationships, and
defiance. What further sets this book apart is how it deviates from
the conventional who and the what of SEA projects to foreground the
how and the why that inspire and necessitate collectively creative
action. Co-Creative is for anyone studying arts-based community
development and gentrification, given it complicates and enriches
the current conversation about art’s undeniable and increasingly
controversial role in neighborhood change. It will also be of
interest to researchers and students of urban studies.
Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities'
commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the
same, and gentrification displaces many original neighborhood
residents, we are left with a sense that our cities are becoming
"hollowed out," bereft of the multi-faceted connections that once
rooted us to our communities. And yet, in a world where change is
unrelenting, people long for authentic places. This book examines
the reasons for and responses to this longing, considering the role
of community development in addressing community and neighbourhood
authenticity. A key concept underscoring planning's inherent
challenges is the notion of authentic community, ranging from more
holistic, and yet highly market-sensitive conceptions of authentic
community to appreciating how authenticity helps form and reinforce
individual identity. Typically, developers emphasize spaces'
monetary exchange value, while residents emphasize neighbourhoods'
use value-including how those spaces enrich local community
tradition and life. Where exchange value predominates, authenticity
is increasingly implicated in gentrification, taking us further
from what initially made communities authentic. The hunger for
authenticity grows, in spite and because of its ambiguities. This
edited collection seeks to explore such dynamics, asking
alternately, "How does the definition of 'authenticity' shift in
different social, political, and economic contexts?" And, "Can
planning promote authenticity? If so, how and under what
conditions?" It includes healthy scepticism regarding the concept,
along with proposals for promoting its democratic, inclusive
expression in neighbourhoods and communities.
Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities'
commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the
same, and gentrification displaces many original neighborhood
residents, we are left with a sense that our cities are becoming
"hollowed out," bereft of the multi-faceted connections that once
rooted us to our communities. And yet, in a world where change is
unrelenting, people long for authentic places. This book examines
the reasons for and responses to this longing, considering the role
of community development in addressing community and neighbourhood
authenticity. A key concept underscoring planning's inherent
challenges is the notion of authentic community, ranging from more
holistic, and yet highly market-sensitive conceptions of authentic
community to appreciating how authenticity helps form and reinforce
individual identity. Typically, developers emphasize spaces'
monetary exchange value, while residents emphasize neighbourhoods'
use value-including how those spaces enrich local community
tradition and life. Where exchange value predominates, authenticity
is increasingly implicated in gentrification, taking us further
from what initially made communities authentic. The hunger for
authenticity grows, in spite and because of its ambiguities. This
edited collection seeks to explore such dynamics, asking
alternately, "How does the definition of 'authenticity' shift in
different social, political, and economic contexts?" And, "Can
planning promote authenticity? If so, how and under what
conditions?" It includes healthy scepticism regarding the concept,
along with proposals for promoting its democratic, inclusive
expression in neighbourhoods and communities.
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