Description
Book SynopsisA critical look at cultural urban regeneration and how it is used as a political tool by the ruling elite to police populations.
Trade Review'A clear sighted and important contribution. At last, a much needed corrective to the narrative of the 'creative class'. I really recommend it.' -- Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture at the University of East London and author of Ground Control
'Builds on more than a decade of writing against the grain of culture-led urban regeneration. This book is not only critique but an attempt to re-imagine what a progressive future for cities might be' -- Justin O'Connor
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Cultural Turns: A De-Industrialised Estate
2. Creative Classes: Aesthetics and Gentrification
3. Colliding Values: Civic Hope and Capital’s Bind
4. New Cool: England’s New Art Museums
5. New Codes: Culture as Social Ordering
6. New Air: Urban Spaces and Democratic Deficits
7. Dissent: Antagonistic Art in a Period of Neoliberal Containment
8. Limits to Culture: Art after Occupy
Notes
Index
