This paper addresses the question of how cosmopolitan consciousness coexists with
persistent banal nationalism or localism. The argument put forward is that these two …

Capital of Culture (ECoC) programme exactly a year on from its inauguration. This event
also saw the transition from Liverpool's" Year of Culture 08‟ to" Year of Environment 09" …

Cultural geography and social geography experienced divergent fates in the
Englishspeaking world during the last decades of the twentieth century. Cultural geography …

Recent accounts of urban political change have been seemingly preoccupied with
demonstrating the existence of a transition from managerial to entrepreneurial forms of …

This chapter describes the development of the Alexandrou Svolou Neigbourhood Initiative
68 (ASNI), a bottom-up and self-organised activist group that was founded in 2013 in …

The cognitive-cultural dimensions of contemporary capitalism are identified by reference to
its leading sectors, basic technologies, labor relations systems and market structures …

Since 1945, in the first decades of post-war reconstruction in the Netherlands, local and
national governments have played a dominant role in urban cultural policy, in building up …

Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the
cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of …

This book explores the issues and international trends of cultural development and cultural
sustainability in cities and regions of Europe and USA. Who and what is cultural …