Cities and cultures / Malcolm Miles

By:

Miles, Malcolm

Series: Critical introductions to urbanism and the cityPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 243 pISBN:

9780415354431

Summary: 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 critical comment on a range of literatures - being a truly inter-disciplinary study - and the outcome of the author's field research into urban cultures. (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 02538	1	Available (Disponible)		1900147727

List of illustrations -- List of case studies -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- I. Definitions : 1. Cities ; 2. Cultures ; Notes for further reading: Chapters 1 and 2 -- II. Interactions : 3. Cities producing culture ; 4. Culture re-producing cities ; Notes for further reading: Chapters 3 and 4 -- III. Culture industries and cultural policies : 5. The culture industries ; 6. Cities of culture ; Notes for further reading: Chapters 5 and 6 -- IV. Interventions : 7 Cultural cross-currents ; 8 Cultural identities ; 9 Permeable cultures ; Notes for further reading: Chapters 7–9 -- Bibliography -- Index

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