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Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions. This book looks back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and profiles a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The author brings together material from a wide range of disciplines to argue for cultural intervention as a means to radical change, while recognizing that most such efforts in the past have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators. Distinctive in that it places works of the imagination in the political and cultural context of environmentalism, this book asks how cultural work might contribute to radical social change. It is equally concerned with theory and practice - part one providing a theoretical framework and part two illustrating such frameworks with examples.

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"How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural' urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning. Limits to Culture starts by outlining the cultural turn in urban policy which happened between the 1980s and the 2000s, in which new art museums and cultural or heritage quarters lent a creative mask to urban redevelopment. Malcolm Miles challenges the notions of the 'creative class' and 'creative city', and aligns them to gentrification and the elimination of diversity and urban dynamism. He explores the history of cultural urban policy and its antagonistic relationship to community and political art internationally -- across the UK, Europe and the US. In the 1960s creativity was identified with revolt, yet from the 1980s onwards it was subsumed in consumerism, which continued in the 1990s through cool Britannia culture and its international reflections. After the crash of 2008 money became scarcer, meaning that the illusory creative city gave way to reveal its hollow interior, through urban clearances and underdevelopment. Limits to Culture straddles the fields of cultural studies and urban geography and aims to shine a new light into some of the darker corners of the political history of both"--Provided by publisher.

Urban renewal --- City planning --- Gentrification --- Urban geography --- Culture --- Cultural pluralism --- Art and society. --- Art --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Art and politics --- Politics and art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Geography --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects

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Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology in

Cities and towns. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Urban geography. --- Architecture and society. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Geography --- Urban sociology --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Human factors