Cities and cultures
By: Malcolm Miles.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780415354424; 9780415354431
Subjects: Sociology, Urban; Cities and towns; Culture
Description: This book is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. It questions perceived ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive ways of life - are seen to be differently used in or affected by the development of particular cities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction; title: Cities; title: Cultures; title: Cities producing culture; title: Culture re-producing cities; title: The culture industries; title: European cities of culture; title: Cultural cross-currents; title: Cultural identities; title: Permeable cultures.