Cultural planning : an urban renaissance? / Graeme Evans

By:

Evans, Graeme

Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, cop. 2001Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 335 pISBN:

0415207320

Summary: The late twentieth century has seen a renaissance in new and improved cultural facilities: from arts centres, theatres, museums, to multiplex cinemas and public art. Cities worldwide have sought to transform their image and economies. Industrial cities have become cultural capitals, such as 'Guggenheim Bilbao'. Barcelona and Baltimore have been emulated by New Jersey and Singapore in regenerating downtown areas through new and upgraded cultural facilities and waterfront developments. Even old world cites such as London, Paris Berlin and Vienna have created new millennial cultural quarters. Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why societies have planned for the arts. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantine empires to the European Renaissance and its global recreation today, public culture has exhibited remarkable continuity in its location and selection of arts facilities and cultural activity, and their role in the form and function of cities. Whether as an extension of welfare provision and human rights, or the creative industries and cultural tourism, the arte are growing elements of urban, social and economic development in the postindustrial age. However, the new 'Grand Projects' and cultural/ resources are highly concentrated, at the cost of both local cultural amenities and a culturally diverse society. Arte audiences have beer in decline as cultural venues, museum collections, orchestras and mobile cultural milieu, have become footloose. Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and the relationships between State arte policy, the cultural economy and city planning. Combining cultural and economic geography with arts and urban policy, it uses case studies and examples from Europe, North America and Asia The book calla for the adoption of a cultural approach to town planning, greater equality in distribution and integration of cultural provision and urban design, in order to prevent the reinforcement of existing geographical and cultural divides. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02762	1	Available (Disponible)		1900074405

Plates -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Historical Evolution of City Arts and Cultural Planning -- 3. Urban Culture and the early Industrial City -- 4. Amenity Planning and the Arts Centre -- 5. Models and Standards of Arts Provision -- 6. The Cultural Economy - from Arts Amenity to Culture Industry -- 7. European Common Culture and Planning for Regional Development -- 8. Cities of Culture and the Urban Renaissance -- 9. Planning for the Arts: An Urban Renaissance? -- Appendix I. Model planning policies for the arts, culture and entertainment: a borough survey -- Appendix II. Extract: Space for the arts -- Bibliography -- Index

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