(Re)Reading the 'Loft Living'Habitus in Montréal's Inner City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4383074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Podmore, Julie A Podmore (0000-0001-8412-549X, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-302 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.00140 |
| OpenAlex | W2144425124 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
Over the past two decades, converted loft spaces have emerged as an important element of the North American inner-city landscape. Originating within the specific social and economic conditions of Manhattan's SoHo (South of Houston) District in the 1970s, lofts have come to exemplify a conjunction between culture and economy in the restructuring of the contemporary city. In the gentrification literature, however, the idea of 'culture' and its role in urban change remains weakly conceptualized as 'arts-related investment' and 'heritage preservation'. In this paper I untangle this relationship and realign the cultural with socio-spatial practice to examine the production of a loft landscape in inner-city Montréal. This case study illustrates the weak role played by capital accumulation strategies in the production of this landscape in Montréal and highlights the importance of a North-America-wide cultural construction of the SoHo loft and its reproduction in other cities. I argue that the media serves as a site and agent in the re-coding of inner city industrial landscapes by repeatedly representing lofts as the 'authentic' domain of the avant-garde. In the case of Montréal, the reconstruction of a loft landscape further depends on local cultural forms that map and translate the loft lifestyle and aesthetic in the local material environment and build relationships between local conditions and identities, and SoHo. Finally, drawing on interviews with Montréal loft tenants, I illustrate how inner-city identities are constructed through socio-spatial practices.Durant les deux dernières décennies, les espaces de lofts aménagés sont devenus un élément important du paysage des centres-villes d'Amérique du Nord. Ayant leur origine dans les conditions économiques et sociales spécifiques au district de SoHo à Manhattan (au Sud de Houston) dans les années 1970, les lofts en sont venus à exemplifier une conjonction entre la culture et l'économie dans la restructuration de la ville contemporaine. Cependant, dans la littérature sur l'embourgeoisement, l'idée de 'culture' et son rôle dans le changement urbain ne sont que peu théorisés en tant que 'investissement qui se rapporte aux arts' et 'préservation du patrimoine'. Dans cet article, j'éclaircis ce rapport et réaligne le cultural à la pratique socio-spatiale afin d'examiner la production d'un paysage de lofts dans le centre de la ville de Montréal. Ce cas d'étude illustre le rôle minime des stratégies d'accumulation du capital dans la production de ce paysage à Montréal et souligne l'importance d'une construction culturelle du loft de SoHo, connue dans toute l'Amérique du Nord, et de sa reproduction dans d'autres villes. Je soutiens que les médias servent de lieu et d'agent de recodification des paysages industriels des centres-villes en représentant régulièrement les lofts comme le domaine 'authentique' de l'avant-garde. Dans le cas de Montréal, la reconstruction d'un paysage de lofts dépend aussi des formes culturelles locales qui tracent et traduisent le mode de vie et l'esthétique du loft dans l'environnement matériel local et qui construisent des rapports entre les conditions et identités locales et SoHo. Finalement, me basant sur des entrevues avec des occupants de loft à Montréal, je montre comment les identités du centre-ville sont construites par les pratiques socio-spatiales
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