Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities

The book explores the potential of a cultural approach to sustainable urban development, linking urban spaces of possibilities to seized or missed opportunities for innovative partnerships and culturally sensitive urban policies. It highlights the challenges of sustainability and the need for institutional innovations. Through concrete examples from various cities, the book connects urban spaces and actors, explores their guiding principles, strategies, and practices, and identifies new levers, networks, and alliances. It is relevant to researchers and advanced students in interdisciplinary fields such as urban studies, sustainability science, cultural sciences, urban sociology, and sociology of the arts/cultural sociology, as well as those interested in transdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, academia, and civil society.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the potential of a cultural approach to sustainable urban development, highlighting the opportunities and challenges associated with it. It examines urban spaces of possibilities and connects them to the potential for innovative partnerships and culturally sensitive urban policies. The call for sustainability necessitates institutional innovations to address the urgency of social transformation. Sustainable urban development requires creative impulses, experiments, and the visibility of alternatives through locally rooted urban initiatives, artistic actions, and social movements. The book draws on empirical research in cities such as Hanover and Hamburg (Germany), Baltimore and Chicago (USA), Bangalore (India), St. Petersburg (Russia), Singapore, and Vancouver (Canada), connecting urban spaces and their actors, exploring their guiding principles, strategies, and practices, and identifying new levers, networks, and alliances. It offers inspiring examples of culture in everyday life in the city and explains the qualities that make local cultural initiatives especially full of potentials and how they can translate into city-wide changes. The book is intended for researchers and advanced students in interdisciplinary fields such as urban studies, sustainability science, cultural sciences, urban sociology, and sociology of the arts/cultural sociology, as well as those interested in transdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, academia, and civil society.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 154 x 235 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032137018