Cultural approaches to the study of urban life have enjoyed brief bursts of popularity within
the social sciences over the past century. Although many urban sociologists acknowledge …

Acts of creative citizenship require places, where challenges and tensions generate energy,
inviting resolution through creative collaboration. In this chapter we aim to shed light on …

This paper tracks the transition of “creative city” planning from the gentrified downtown to the
disinvested inner-suburbs. It attends particularly to contradictory notions of community …

Around the world, cities have experienced intense suburbanization. Demographic growth
and urban restructuring have rapidly transformed the form and use of suburbs, producing …

Urban development strategies relying on cultural production and consumption have enabled
radical shifts in post-Fordist urban economies and policies, providing instant transformation …

As a marker of its salience to the city under deepening globalisation, the most recent report
in the UN-Habitat series, The State of the World's Cities (UNCHS, 2004), focuses on the …

This article contributes to current debates on the use of culture in urban regeneration
through a case study of Roubaix, a former industrial town located in the metropolitan area of …

Creative activism and urban art are increasingly being used as an instrument to collectively
re‐appropriate the urban space and thus articulate urban belonging and citizenship from …

This article explores the contested occupation and utilization of public space and the
contested construction of public identity within the spatial politics of the city. Drawing on a …

Although of major significance for urban branding and tourism, cultural quarters have
become highly contested as a consequence of debates around issues of commodification …