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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates and questions the meaning and implications of suburban creativity.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Preface Contributors Part I: Openings 1. Rethinking Creative and Cultural Practices from the Outside in – An Interdisciplinary Exploration Ilja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene 2. The Uncool Hunt: Searching for the Creative Suburb David Gilbert Part II: The Suburban Home as Locus of Creativity 3. “Pictures, Plants, and Ornaments”: Jane Ellen Panton and Creative Practice in the British Victorian Suburbs Sarah Bilston 4. Battlegrounds of Taste and Distinction: Art and Antique Collectors in the Suburban Hinterland of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Belgium Ulrike Müller and Ilja Van Damme 5. The Art of Living in the Australian Suburb: Creative and Cultural Production at Home in Suburban Melbourne, 1910s–1960s Susan Reidy 6. Ideal Homes and Haunted Houses: Twenty-First-Century Irish Suburban Art and Writing Simon Workman Part III: The Suburban Creative Milieu 7. Halfway between Nature and Culture: Uccle Centre d’Art, a Colony of Artists in Brussels’s Suburbs in the Interwar Period Tatiana Debroux 8. Exploring Creativity in Dublin’s Suburbs, 1900–2000: Insider, Outsider, Bourgeois, or Bohemian? Ruth McManus 9. Recreating Locality: Community and Identity in Budapest Suburbs, 1995–2020 János B. Kocsis 10. Creativity in Contemporary Housing Estate Neighbourhoods: The Case of Kontula, Helsinki Johanna Lilius 11. The Fung Bros Rep the Ethnoburb Margaret Crawford 12. Grounding Suburban LGBTQ+ Vernacular Creativities in the Toronto City-Region Alison L. Bain Part IV: Creating Suburbia 13. From Artistry to Agency? Transactional Architecture for the Creative Fashioning of the Antwerp Suburbs in the Early Twentieth Century Tom Broes and Michiel Dehaene 14. Creating Suburbs in North America: A Mutual Blind Spot Richard Harris
