Creative margins
Subtitle: cultural production in Canadian suburbs
By: Alison L. Bain
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781442646902; 9781442614697
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Arts; Artistes; Popular culture; Études de cas; Banlieues; Suburbs; Aspect économique; Politique culturelle; Culture populaire; Sociologie urbaine; Arts and society; Case studies; Art et société; Artists; Urban Sociology; Cultural policy
Description: "Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.

Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outside Toronto, and Surrey and North Vancouver outside Vancouver. The book investigates whether the creative process unfolds differently for suburban and urban cultural workers, as well as how this process is affected by the presence or absence of cultural infrastructure and planning initiatives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction: creating from the margins; title: Chapter 2 The geography of somewhere: the suburbs; title: Chapter 3 (Un)usual suburbanites? Explorations and interventions at the cultural frontier; title: Chapter 4 Why (not) here? Valuing the intermediate landscape; title: Chapter 5 Suburban cultural infrastructure planning formulas: from district to multiplex; title: Chapter 6 The creative art of place complexity in suburbia; title: Chapter 7 Networked geographies of suburban cultural workers; title: Chapter 8 Conclusion: culture from the outside in.