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- Title
Art and Neighbourhood Change Beyond the City Centre.
- Authors
Enright, Theresa E.; McIntyre, Christina
- Abstract
In critical urban research, artists are typically seen as drivers of central city gentrification and public arts as depoliticized tools of the creative city agenda. This paper takes Toronto's Main Square as a case study, first, to delineate the multiple ways that community arts can influence social change beyond gentrification, and second, to identify suburban space as an important site of cultural and creative policy articulation. We claim that the unique non-central location of Main Square appears as a significant factor shaping the trajectory of transformation and delimiting the political potential of arts in engendering public values and in addressing spatial injustice. We claim that rather than following the script of neoliberal creative city policies, community based public art can work within and against a market-driven logic of cultural programming to pose new opportunities for public space and public life.
- Subjects
CENTRAL business districts; URBAN research; GENTRIFICATION; PUBLIC art; DEPOLITICIZATION
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
1188-3774
- Publication type
Article