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1 Cities and CulturesCities and Culturesis a critical account of the relations between contemporary citiesand the Cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questionsperceived ideas of what constitutes a city s culture through case studies in whichdifferent kinds of culture the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive waysof life are seen to be differently used in or affected by the development of particularcities. The book does not mask the complexity of this, but explains it in waysaccessible to book begins with introductory chapters on the concepts of a city and a culture (the latter in the anthropological sense as well as denoting the arts), citing cases frommodern literature.

2 The book then moves from a critical account of cultural productionin a metropolitan setting to the idea that a city, too, is produced through the charac-teristic ways of life of its inhabitants. The cultural industries are scrutinised for theirrelation to such Cultures as well as to city marketing, and attention is given to theEuropean Cities of culture initiative, and to the hybridity of contemporary urbancultures in a period of globalisation and migration. In its penultimate chapter the book looks at incidental cultural forms and cultural means to identity formation; andin its final chapter examines the permeability of urban Cultures and cultural are introduced, positions clarified and contrasted, and notes given forselective further on the two meanings of culture , Miles takes a unique approach by relatingarguments around these meanings to specific cases of urban development today.

3 The book includes both critical comment on a range of literatures being a trulyinterdisciplinary study and the outcome of the author s field research into Milesis Reader in Cultural Theory at the University of Plymouth, UK,where he convenes the Critical Spaces Research Group and co-ordinates the doctoralresearch methods programme for the Faculty of critical introductions to urbanism and the cityEdited by Malcolm Miles, University of Plymouth, UK and John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, USAI nternational Advisory Board:The series is designed to allow undergraduate readers to make sense of, and find acritical way into, urbanism.

4 It will: cover a broad range of themes introduce key ideas and sources allow the author to articulate her/his own position introduce complex arguments clearly and accessibly bridge disciplines, and theory and practice be affordable and well designedThe series covers social, political, economic, cultural and spatial concerns. It will appealto students in architecture, cultural studies, geography, popular culture , sociology, urbanstudies, urban planning. It will be trans-disciplinary. Firmly situated in the present, it alsointroduces material from the Cities of modernity and : Cities and Consumption Mark JayneCities and Cultures Malcolm MilesForthcoming.

5 Cities and Cinema Barbara MennelCities and Nature Lisa Benton-Short and John Rennie ShortCities, Politics and Power Simon ParkerDigital Cities Chris BennerCities and Economies Yeong-Hyun Kim and John Rennie ShortUrban Erotics David Bell and John BinnieChildren, Youth and the City Kathrin H rshelmann and Lorraine van BlerkFranco BianchiniJane RendellKim DoveySaskia SassenStephen GrahamDavid SibleyTim HallErik SwyngedouwPhil HubbardElizabeth WilsonPeter MarcuseCities and CulturesMalcolm MilesFirst published 2007 by Routledge2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4 RNSimultaneously published in the USA and Canadaby Routledge270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.

6 An informa business 2007 Malcolm MilesAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British LibraryLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataA catalog record for this book has been requestedISBN10.

7 0 415 35442 0 (hbk)ISBN10: 0 415 35443 9 (pbk)ISBN10: 0 203 00109 5 (ebk)ISBN13: 978 0 415 35442 4 (hbk)ISBN13: 978 0 415 35443 1 (pbk)ISBN13: 978 0 203 00109 7 (ebk)This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library,2007. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge scollection of thousands of eBooks please go to ISBN 0-203-00109-5 Mastere-bookISBNC ontentsList of illustrationsviiList of case studiesixAcknowledgementsxiGeneral introduction1 Part One: Definitions51 Cities72 Cultures29 Notes for further reading: Chapters 1 and 248 Part Two: Interactions513 Cities producing culture534 culture re-producing cities75 Notes for further reading: Chapters 3 and 495 Part Three.

8 culture industries and cultural policies975 The culture industries996 Cities of culture121 Notes for further reading: Chapters 5 and 6143 Part Four: Interventions1457 Cultural cross-currents1478 Cultural identities1719 Permeable cultures193 Notes for further reading: Chapters 7 9211 Bibliography213 Index240vi Bariz, designed by Hassan Fathy (1965 67), now deserted Modern lofts at Skinningrove, Cleveland, 2001 , statue of Pessoa outside Caf Brasiliero s lavatory, waterfront, Hull Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Bookmatches, 1992 Sert, Spanish pavilion for the 1937 Paris World Exposition,reconstructed , Egypt, hajjpainting, + Jordan, The Neo-Imperial Function, billboard, Guangzhoutriennial exhibition, , Bryggen waterfront UNESCO World Heritage site Brasil, Folge mir, spoof traffic sign, Weimar, 2004.

9 Building on Republic Street prepared for removal restaurant sign, Yerevan, 2005 tas, statue of Lenin , Arizona Ma as de Carvalho, porque existe o ser em vez do nada?,Marvila, Work and Research Centre, Tilonia, Rajasthan, India: puppet-making War Memorial (1946), Tiergarten, Berlin, 2005 Cities of culture , 1985 99, and Capitals of culture , 2000 Capitals of culture , 2007 Capitals of culture host states, 2011 descriptions of Capitals of culture for 2000126viii IllustrationsCase Ian Sinclair, London Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Bariz, Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Samuel Mockbee, The Rural Studio , Cleveland, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of David Crouch, The Art of s lavatory, Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Kim Dovey, Framing , Dosh, Lynne Steely.

10 Abu Graib Detainees Enter Art Contest Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings, + Jordan, The Neo-Imperial Amrit Wilson, Eritrea: The Experience of Creating a New culture Serene Tan and Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Negotiating Cosmopolitanism in Singapore s Fictional Landscape Brasil, Folge Jeanne Hyvrard, Les Prunes de Cyth Jyoti Hosagrahar, Indigenous , Arundhati Roy, Power bel hooks, Beauty Laid Bare; Aesthetics in the Ordinary Work and Research Centre, Tilonia, Michel Tournier, Nitin Govil, The Metropolis and Mental Strife War Memorial, Berlin206 AcknowledgementsI am grateful for support from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)which enabled me to visit sites and projects in researching this book.