Publisher's Synopsis
How do cultural planners and policymakers work through the arts to create communities? What do artists need to build a sense of place in their community? To discuss these issues, Developing a Sense of Place brings together new models and case studies, each drawn from a specific geographical or socio-cultural context.
Selected for their lasting effect in their local community, the case studies explore new models for opening up the relationship between the university and its regional partners, explicitly connecting creative, critical and theoretical approaches to civic development. The volume has three sections: Case Studies of Place-Making; Models and Methods for Developing Place-Making Through the Arts; and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Place and Contested Identities. The sections cover regions in the UK such as Bedford, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Plymouth and Wakefield, and internationally in countries such as Brazil, Turkey and Zimbabwe.
Developing a Sense of Place offers a range of
viewpoints from, for example, the arts strategist, the academic, the
practice-researcher and the artist. Through its innovative models, from
performing arts to architectural design, the volume will serve the needs and
interests of arts and cultural policy managers, master planners and arts
workers, as well as students of Human Geography, Cultural Planning, Business
and the Creative Industries, and Arts Administration, at undergraduate and postgraduate
level.
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