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Overview"This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban ""spaces of possibilities"" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies. The call for sustainability brings with it challenges for which, in view of the urgency of social transformation, institutional innovations are necessary. Sustainable urban development will only succeed through creative impulses, experiments, trying out innovative ideas, and making alternatives visible, in particular through locally rooted urban initiatives, artistic actions, and social movements. Discussing many concrete examples from several years of empirical research in the cities of Hanover and Hamburg (Germany), Baltimore and Chicago (USA), Bangalore (India), St. Petersburg (Russia), Singapore, and Vancouver (Canada), the book connects urban spaces and their actors; looks at their guiding principles, strategies, and concrete practices; and identifies new levers, networks, and alliances. Readers will find in this book not only inspiring examples of culture in everyday life in the city but also explanations about the qualities that make local cultural initiatives especially full of potentials, and how they may translate into city-wide changes, engaging with the whole City as Space of Possibilities. The book will interest researchers and advanced students in the interdisciplinary fields of urban studies, sustainability science/sustainability research, cultural sciences, urban sociology, and sociology of the arts/cultural sociology; and those interested in the transdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, academia, and civil society." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sacha KaganPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781032137018ISBN 10: 1032137010 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 27 May 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""This is a very welcome collection that focuses on the complex dimensions of the intersections of culture and sustainability in cities. Readers will find a rich section of case studies from three continents. In each case the authors explore not only what is, but what could be: creating a welcome space of policy and practice that generates dialogue, rather than closing it down. Moreover, in a novel methodological turn the international examples are brought into conversation with the German examples (on every other chapter) providing us with a further dimension of learning from the debate: avoiding the simplistic trap of ‘best practice’ approaches."" Andy C. Pratt, Professor of Cultural Economy, Director of Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries, City University of London (UK), Editor-in-Chief of City Culture and Society ""This book unscrambles helpfully some of the most slippery terms in the urban lexicon – culture and sustainable development – and their role in creating ethical, energetic and participative cities. By focusing on ‘possibilities’ it reminds us that it is better to take a glass half full approach and to see opportunities in the crisis. This is where its practical examples reveal and highlight how it is possible for cities to move towards a desirable Planet B even though we need to get Planet A right too."" Charles Landry, Urban Theorist, Founder of Comedia (UK), Author of The Creative City (2000), Creator of the ‘Creative City Index’ ""Sustainable urbanization for a peak world population of 10 billion people is a huge planning, construction, and infrastructure challenge. Kagan's cultural approach to design of urban spaces adds a vital humanistic dimension to the debate that was previously dominated by architecture, engineering, city planning and construction experts. The book’s insight of cities as spaces of cultural possibilities can lead to regenerative sustainable and resilient urban spaces. Must read for anyone interested in urbanization processes."" Professor Paul Shrivastava, Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of the Sustainability Institute at The Pennsylvania State University (USA), Full Member of the Club of Rome, former Executive Director of Future Earth ""Against a global backdrop of uncertainty and instability caused by various worldwide crises, Culture and Sustainable Development in the City comes as a timely reminder that the sustainable development of our cities in this unpredictable future will be essential. The editor and contributors in this volume show us how working together with active civil societies can provide a crucial pulse and critical voice of the city’s inhabitants; and self-sustainable, diversified and inclusive urban development can be achieved."" William S.W. Lim, Architect, Urban Theorist (Singapore), Co-Founding Chairman of Asian Urban Lab, President of the Architectural Association of Asia (AA Asia) ""This book is a welcome invitation to explore the possibilities and potential for generating creative, inclusive, and sustainable urban places where all life can thrive. The chapters reveal why a cultural approach to urban sustainable development is both promising and essential, and why the quality of our engagement with culture matters."" Professor Karen O’Brien, University of Oslo (Norway), participant in IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports, author of You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World ""Sacha Kagan has woven together a compelling and powerful book offering insightful perspectives, practices, analyses, and strategies on how cultural spaces and cultural practices can propel transversal innovations for sustainable urban development. The book demonstrates how enabling ""urban spaces of possibilities"" can advance the emergence of transformative experiments in everyday lives, collective actions that can co-create future trajectories. This is an important contribution to the development of culturally sensitive urban policy that supports both the institutional infrastructures and the innovations necessary to address the multiple crises we now face. The book offers a timely impulse to (re)envisioning the whole city as a space of possibilities – an essential footing to collectively moving forward."" Dr. Nancy Duxbury, Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the ""Urban Cultures, Sociabilities, and Participation"" transdisciplinary line at the Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Portugal) ""Since the outbreak of the Covid19 epidemic, residents of many cities have found solace in the vibrant city, its arts, its creative culture, in moments of political expression of frustration and protest, and in what the authors of this book call ""urban spaces of possibilities"" and ""pivotal places for transformation."" If you want to better understand what and why we have seen and felt in recent years, this book, for the eight cities from three continents it presents, and in its current, empathetic but also critical writing, is the book for you."" Professor Avner de Shalit, Max Kampelman Professor of Democracy and Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)" Author InformationSacha Kagan is a 'Privatdozent' (habilitated external lecturer) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), where he worked as research associate from 2005 to 2018. He was coordinator of Cultura21 International from 2007 to 2016, and a board member of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts at the European Sociological Association (ESA) from 2011 to 2019 (coordinator 2015-2017). In 2018, he received the Basarab Nicolescu Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering Award. He authored over 70 publications, directed 3 documentary films, and contributed in various roles to a dozen arts projects. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |