Limits to Culture: Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art

by Malcolm Miles

Book Overview

How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural' urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning. In the 1980s, notions of the 'creative class' were expressed though a cultural turn in urban policy towards the 'creative city'. De-industrialisation created a shift away from how people understood and used urban space, and consequently, gentrification...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745334342
• ISBN13: 9780745334349
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"