The Cultural Identities Of European Cities

Author : Katia Pizzi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 3039119303

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The Cultural Identities of European Cities by Katia Pizzi Pdf

Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities. Themes that run through the essays include: nostalgia for a grander past; location between Eastern and Western ideologies, religions and cultures; and the fluidity and palimpsest quality of city identity. Not only does the book provide different thematic angles and a variety of approaches to the investigation of city identity, it also emphasizes the importance of diverse cultural components. The essays presented here discuss cultural forms as various as music, architecture, literature, journalism, philosophy, television, film, myths, urban planning and the naming of streets.

Author : M. Sassatelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230250437

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Becoming Europeans by M. Sassatelli Pdf

In this significant intervention into the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity, Monica Sassatelli examines the identity-building intentions and effects of the European Capital of Culture programme, and also looks at the work of the Council of Europe and the recent European Landscape Convention.

Author : John Czaplicka,Nida M. Gelazis,Blair A. Ruble
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080830022

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Cities After the Fall of Communism by John Czaplicka,Nida M. Gelazis,Blair A. Ruble Pdf

Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts. Ultimately, the editors argue that one can see a "New Europe" taking shape in these cities, where a strained discourse between different versions of the past and variously envisioned futures is being set in stone, steel, and glass.

Author : William Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134512867

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Urban Planning and Cultural Identity by William Neill Pdf

This book reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be.

Author : Marion Demossier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816267

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The European Puzzle by Marion Demossier Pdf

The twin concepts of "Culture" and "Identity" are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge the traditional boundaries within the issue of the construction of Europe. In the first part, historians and anthropologists from various national traditions discuss the process of the construction of Europe and its implications for cultural identities. The second section examines a number of topics at the core of the process of Europeanization and presents up-to-date information on each of these issues: political parties, regions, football, cities, the Euro, ethnicity, heritage and European cinema. Emphasis is be placed on the political structuring of cultural identities by contrasting top-down and bottom-up processes that define the tensions between the unity and diversity of the European Community.

Author : Lorna Carson,Chung Kam Kwok,George Kam Kwok,Caroline Smyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 1789974461

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Language and Identity in Europe by Lorna Carson,Chung Kam Kwok,George Kam Kwok,Caroline Smyth Pdf

This book brings together research perspectives on the theme of European linguistic and cultural identity. Its chapters are the responses of rising European researchers to the challenges of language and identity in the context of a multilingual Europe, particularly in urban settings. The authors explore the extent to which diversity, and in particular linguistic diversity, affects identity formation across the European Union, from Ireland to Bulgaria, and beyond its borders. These chapters illustrate both the importance of the theme and the potential for further development in theory, policy and praxis. Readers will find this volume to be an informative and useful springboard for a deeper understanding of language and identity in complex social contexts within an evolving geopolitical and cultural landscape.

Author : S. Hristova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138924792

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Culture and Sustainability in European Cities by S. Hristova Pdf

Publications reveals 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.

Author : Svetlana Hristova,Milena Dragićević Šešić,Nancy Duxbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317677147

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Culture and Sustainability in European Cities by Svetlana Hristova,Milena Dragićević Šešić,Nancy Duxbury Pdf

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.

Author : Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9287137366

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Culture and Neighbourhoods by Council of Europe. Council for Cultural Co-operation Pdf

Author : Lorna Carson,Chung Kam Kwok,Caroline Smyth
Publisher : Peter Lang UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789974496

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Language and Identity in Europe by Lorna Carson,Chung Kam Kwok,Caroline Smyth Pdf

"This book brings together research perspectives on the theme of European linguistic and cultural identity. Its chapters are the responses of rising European researchers to the challenges of language and identity in the context of a multilingual Europe, particularly in urban settings. The authors explore the extent to which diversity, and in particular linguistic diversity, affects identity formation across the European Union, from Ireland to Bulgaria, and beyond its borders. These chapters illustrate both the importance of the theme and the potential for further development in theory, policy and praxis. Readers will find this volume to be an informative and useful springboard for a deeper understanding of language and identity in complex social contexts within an evolving geopolitical and cultural landscape"--

Author : Christoph Cornelißen,Beat Kümin,Massimo Rospocher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110778731

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Migration and the European City by Christoph Cornelißen,Beat Kümin,Massimo Rospocher Pdf

Looking back over the centuries, migration has always formed an important part of human existence. Spatial mobility emerges as a key driver of urban evolution, characterized by situation-specific combinations of opportunities, restrictions, and fears. This collection of essays investigates interactions between European cities and migration between the early modern period and the present. Building on conceptual approaches from history, sociology, and cultural studies, twelve contributions focus on policies, representations, and the impact on local communities more generally. Combining case-studies and theoretical reflections, the volume’s contributions engage with a variety of topics and disciplinary perspectives yet also with several common themes. One revolves around problems of definition, both in terms of demarcating cities from their surroundings and of distinguishing migration in a narrower sense from other forms of short- and long-distance mobility. Further shared concerns include the integration of multiple analytical scales, contextual factors, and diachronic variables (such as urbanization, industrialization, and the digital revolution).

Author : John Myerscough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0901557897

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European cities of culture and cultural months by John Myerscough Pdf

Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134257706

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Cities and Cultures by Malcolm Miles Pdf

Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received 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. The book does not mask the complexity of this, but explains it in ways accessible for undergraduates. The book begins with introductory chapters on the concepts of a city and a culture (the latter in the anthropological sense as well as denoting the arts), citing cases from modern literature. The book then moves from a critical account of cultural production in a metropolitan setting to the idea that a city, too, is produced through the characteristic ways of life of its inhabitants. The cultural industries are scrutinised for their relation to such cultures as well as to city marketing, and attention is given to the European Cities of Culture initiative, and to the hybridity of contemporary urban cultures in a period of globalisation and migration. In its penultimate chapter the book looks at incidental cultural forms and cultural means to identify formation; and in its final chapter, examines the permeability of urban cultures and cultural forms. Sources are introduced, positions clarified and contrasted, and notes given for selective further reading. Playing on the two meanings of culture, Miles takes an unique approach by relating arguments around these meanings to specific cases of urban development today. The book includes both critical comment on a range of literatures - being a truly inter-disciplinary study - and the outcome of the author's field research into urban cultures.

Author : Manuel Guardia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317155775

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Culture, Urbanism and Planning by Manuel Guardia Pdf

The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies not only in the arts taking place there but also in the city’s fabric, its architecture, and in its cultural heritage. This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, the book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'. The book also assesses the increasingly important issue of urban images and their influence on planning strategies.

Author : Andy Hollis
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : National characteristics, European
ISBN : 9042015438

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Beyond Boundaries by Andy Hollis Pdf

Despite the recent growth in university courses on European Studies and Cultural Studies, and notwithstanding increasing public concern about questions of national identity within Europe, there is currently little material available which explores the diversity of European identities specifically within the context of European literary and filmic culture. In tackling ten novels, six plays, four films, three short stories, three books of travel writing and one diary, covering fifteen nationalities in all, the authors of this volume are seeking to fill this gap. The twelve essays contain detailed textual analysis embedded within a framework of cultural theory whose most celebrated reference points include Freud, Edward Said, Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha. This volume is aimed not only at specialists in identity studies and those concerned with the artistic landscape of a wider Europe - including Russia, the Balkans, Finland and Turkey. It will also interest those preoccupied with building an imaginative and imagined identity for Europe, an identity which might help to sustain it as a political entity and lend it greater popular legitimacy than it enjoys at present.