Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0705-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Julie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a critical intervention.

Across vastly different contexts, where universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly misplaced, she innovatively explores the ways that art spaces employ creative capital to sustain themselves in a competitive urban landscape.

She shows how these art spaces are embedded within a politics of aspiration and demonstrates that aspiration is an important lens through which to understand the nature of, and possibilities for, urban change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ren, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Elsewheres

Operationalizing Comparative Urbanism

Envisioning Art Spaces

Making Do

Expressions

The Capacity to Aspire

Über Autor(innen)

Ren, Julie
Julie Ren is a Research Assistant in the Geography Department at Humboldt University of Berlin and a Visiting Fellow in Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Julie Ren is Senior Scientist of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Zurich.