By Elizabeth Grierson, Kristen Sharp
Re-Imagining town: paintings, Globalization, and concrete areas examines how modern strategies of globalization are reworking cultural event and creation in city areas. It maps how cultural productions in artwork, structure, and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of position and identification via occasions, artifacts, and attitudes. This booklet recasts how we comprehend cities—how wisdom should be shaped, framed, and transferred via cultural construction and the way that wisdom is mediated during the development of aesthetic that means and price.
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Many of the apartments in a new, high-rent block remain unlet. But the gentrifying script was always uncertain. St Pauli is one of most ethically- and socially-diverse neighbourhoods in Hamburg, and one of the poorest: a transitional zone of migrants and bohemians, in a way, like El Raval prior to remodelling. But, unlike El Raval, the artist-squatters are mobilized. Park Fiction emerged as a refusal of the values of the global free market of which gentrification is an outcome, and has worked with local groups to co-design a public park in a key site as a material claim to ownership of the neighbourhood’s identity.
City evolution delivers the meshing and intricacies of interaction and layered relationships. The coming together of a number of capitals over time is a key to making a city a success. Capitals have been categorized by various researchers in the field (Bourdieu 1986; Santos 2008). Pierre Bourdieu’s social, cultural and economic capitals are worth considering in terms of the extent to which they can be facilitated by the built environment – even if not always guaranteed by it. Bourdieu’s definitions may be summarized thus: Social capital: the productive benefits of good, durable social relations, social obligation and cooperation; Cultural capital: goods, peoples’ disposition, or institutional such as educational; Economic capital: endeavor that is directly convertible or realizable as money or property rights.
Eleven years after the millennium, the cultural bonanza seems over. The Niemeyer Arts Centre in Aviles, Spain is about to close due to lack of funds to run it. Construction has halted on a City of Culture complex in Santiago de Compostela. In the UK, two new art museums – the Hepworth in Wakefield and the Turner Contemporary in Margate – may be the last of a generation of lottery-funded schemes denoting culturally-led regeneration. But I wonder what social coherences or local economies were regenerated, and whether the emphasis was always on raising property values.
