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Cultural Analyses in Urban Theory of the 1990s

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ID2137407
AuthorsKatarina Nylund (Japan External Trade Organization, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume44
Issue3
Pages219-230
Publication date2001-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169930104400302
OpenAlexW2091579169
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited11

In the 1990s, cultural analyses have become an integrated part of urban theory, and culture is often seen as an important factor in the interpretation of both the structural changes of society and the multiplicity of life forms. But culture is not only used as a means to understand actual changes; equally often it is used as a tool to create changes. Under the headings of culture and space, culture and place, and culture and urban policy, the article presents a general view of recent urban theoretical attempts to grasp the role of culture, first in a global, secondly in a local and thirdly in an urban political perspective. The analyses of culture and space focus on the central role of culture and the cultural industries in the reconstruction of the economy, which took place after the economic recession in the 1970s. The spatial consequences of this reconstruction are discussed in terms of globalization, polarization and hierarchization. The analyses of culture and place strive to increase the knowledge of how the structural changes have affected the built environment and the social and cultural life of the city. The consequences are often discussed in terms of gentrification, aesthetization and privatization of public space. Special attention is paid to the growing social polarization and segregation. The analyses of culture and urban policy focus on the role of culture in the effort to strengthen the competitiveness of the city. Two different strategies are discussed, an instrumental one which directly aims at economic growth, and an integrative one where the goal is to restore the cultural hegemony

Culture theory · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Globalization · Political science · Recession · Sociology · Urban culture · Urban planning · Urban theory · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning

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Unique citing works8
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2002 - 2020 (19)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 12

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