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The role of festivals inrevitalising public social life and the urban public sphere
Franco BianchiniLeeds Metropolitan [email protected]
The standardisation and corporatisation of cities
The standardisation and privatisation of public space: an urban renaissance?
The ‘anywhere and everywhere’ shopping mall
The dull new public realm of out-of-town shopping centres and ‘citadels of entertainment’:towards the obese city
The sad centrality of car parks
Urban sprawl and hypertrophy
The theming of cities:the ‘experience economy’ (Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore)
and ‘festival marketplaces’
‘Experiential retailing’ and ‘eatertainment’
Horror vacui?
The danger of museumisation
The economy of controlled experiences
“In return for the assurance of safety and certainty, theme park visitors surrender an extraordinary degree of control, both in terms of freedom of movement and freedom of imagination” (John Hannigan, Fantasy City)
Rethinking Policy & Planning approaches to creative spaces in urban & regional centres
Less leisure time for people in work The problem of work-life balance
The fast city and the values of slowness(see www.slowmovement.com)
The problem of information overload
Other threats to public social life and the public sphere
Other threats to public social life and the public sphere
‘Night-time economies’: the dream of a convivial café culture, and the reality of the ‘alcoholic agora’ (and its costs)
Other threats to public social life and the public sphere
The ‘audit society’
The growth of social inequality and socio-economic
polarisation
Growing fear of ‘the other’
The temptation of ‘gated communities’
Other threats to public social life and the public sphere
The decline of political participation
The emergence of ‘anti-politics’ movements
The growing gulf between urban policy rhetoric andsocio-economic realities on the ground
The emergence of criminal economies and lawless cities:the case of Naples
The place of festivals in urban cultural policies today
The uneasy coexistence of policy
rationales originating in different historical periods
The growth of immigration and multi-ethnicity
National approaches to managing ethnic diversity are being questioned
Corporate multiculturalism (UK, Netherlands)
Civic cultural integration (France)
The creative potential of interculturalism:seewww.interculturalcity.com) and the bookThe Intercultural City. Planning for Diversity Advantage, by Phil Wood and Charles Landry(London, Earthscan)
The rise of intercultural festivals
Rethinking Policy & Planning approaches to creative spaces in urban & rural centres
The transformative power of festivals
H. Lefebvre’s notion of la fête
Are festivals “festive”?
The danger of “instrumentalisation”
The widening of people’s mental and spatial horizons
Festivals as public debate fora
Rethinking Policy & Planning approaches to creative spaces in urban & rural centres
Research methodologies
Researching European Cities and European Capitals ofCulture
The Impacts 08 experiment in Liverpool
Researching the role of festivals in developing or strengthening new creative milieux and urban visions
Rethinking Policy & Planning approaches to creative spaces in urban & rural centres
