Creating the Ordinary City: Creative Policy and the making of Place and Community in Small Cities

创建普通城市：创意政策以及小城市的场所和社区建设

• 批准号: 1788796
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1788796
• 关键词: Creating; Ordinary; City; Creative; Policy

Creative city discourses are often extraordinary; they are stories of the creativeeconomy of global star cities- London, New York, Paris, or of the role of creativity indramatic economic rescues of the likes of Detroit. Yet as the 'ordinary city thesis' arguesmore generally, we need to counter such extraordinary narratives with stories of midsizeand small, ordinary cities. Indeed, UK urban development policy has shifted inrecent years to focus more on so-called 'mid-sized cities'. Further, as the gatheringcritiques of creative cities discourses demonstrate, empirical material is needed toground the sometimes 'outlandish' claims associated with creativity and its social andeconomic possibilities. What is more, we need to critically engage with 'other' creativecities, exploring forms of creativity - everyday, vernacular, amateur - that might sitalongside or even critique the dominant economic 'creativity' of creative cities. Thisthesis aims to explore the 'ordinary' creativities of three small-mid size- UK cities,Coventry, Swansea and Newcastle. It does so through in-depth ethnographic workengaging with the everyday creative spaces and diverse forms of practice in thesecreative cities. The result will be a thesis that develops multi-dimensional critiques ofdominant creative city politics through a co-joining of the creative city paradigm and itscritiques; the ordinary city thesis and concerns with social justice. Specifically, it willquery how smaller, mid-sized cities (in the UK) are using and adapting creative citypolicies to catalyse economic growth, how dominant creative spatial forms and tacticsmigrant from larger cities to smaller ones where they are mobilised in practices ofcommunity and place making. And further, how the everyday and vernacular creativitiesof these 'ordinary' cities sit alongside and challenge dominant creative city paradigmsoffering alternative means to make places and communities. For academics and nonacademicstakeholders alike, this work will be crucial for; the on-going critiques ofcreative city policy and its development, the evolving discussions of creativity and itspotential for community and place making and for an appreciation of the 'other'creative cities and other creativities within our ordinary urban spaces.

创意城市的话语往往是非凡的;它们是全球星星城市--伦敦、纽约、巴黎--创意经济的故事，或者是创意在底特律之类的戏剧性经济救援中所扮演的角色。然而，随着“普通城市理论”的普及，我们需要用中小普通城市的故事来对抗这种不寻常的叙述。事实上，近年来英国的城市发展政策已经转向更多地关注所谓的“中型城市”。此外，正如对创意城市话语的批评所表明的那样，需要实证材料来支持与创造力及其社会和经济可能性相关的有时“古怪”的主张。更重要的是，我们需要批判性地与“其他”创意城市接触，探索各种形式的创意--日常的、本土的、业余的--这些创意城市可能会与占主导地位的经济“创意”并肩作战，甚至批评它们。本论文旨在探讨英国三个中小城市，考文垂，斯旺西和纽卡斯尔的“普通”创造力。它通过深入的民族志工作，与日常的创造性空间和创造性城市的各种形式的实践相结合。其结果将是一个论文，发展多维度的批评占主导地位的创意城市的政治，通过共同加入的创意城市范式和它的critiques;普通城市的论文和社会正义的关注。具体来说，它将询问（英国）中小城市如何使用和调整创意城市政策来促进经济增长，如何将占主导地位的创意空间形式和策略从大城市迁移到小城市，在那里他们被动员起来进行社区和地方建设。此外，这些“普通”城市的日常和本土创意如何与主流创意城市范式并存并挑战后者，从而提供替代手段来打造地方和社区。对于学术界和非学术界的利益相关者来说，这项工作将是至关重要的;对创意城市政策及其发展的持续批评，对创意及其对社区和场所建设的重要性的不断讨论，以及对“其他”创意城市和我们普通城市空间中的其他创意的欣赏。