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Cultural Sustainability in Small and Medium-sized Cities: What are the Issues?

  • European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe. This book reveals in a pluralistic way how European cities are generating new approaches to their sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to these processes. It addresses both a deficit of attention to small and medium-sized cities in the framework of European sustainable development, and an underestimation of the role of culture, artistic expression and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite to urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe, representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development, the book investigates how participative culture, community arts, and more generally, creativity of civic imagination are conducive to the goal of a sustainable future of small and medium-sized cities. This is an essential volume for researchers and postgraduate students in urban studies, cultural studies, cultural geography and urban sociology as well as for policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the specificity of European cities as hubs of innovation, creativity and artistic industriousness.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Helmut K. Anheier, Michael Hölscher
Editor(s):Svetlana Hristova, Milena Dragicevic‐Sesic, Nancy Duxbury
Parent Title (English):Culture and Sustainability of European Cities: Imagining Europolis
Publisher:Routledge
Place of Publisher:London
Publication year:2015
First Page:17
Last Page:32
ISBN:1138778419
Release Date:2015/09/18
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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