Authenti-City: Heritage, Hipsterfication and the Changing Aesthetics of Consumption in the City of York

我这个项目的目的是探索零售业的士绅化如何改变了约克市的美学特征。通过聚焦于独立企业的激增，我打算调查遗产、原汁原味和怀旧的概念是如何被挪用到这座城市特定的消费美学中的。通过借鉴洛伦岑和范海尔的作品，我将认为，作为一个小城市，约克已经发展了一种特定的文化和政治经济，作为城市类型的“潮人”的激增已经在城市中引发了一种微妙但可见的审美和文化变革，对社区和消费产生了影响。虽然我将在学习的第一年开始对这座城市进行初步调查，但我会在这一年的大部分时间里完成我的文献回顾，确保我的项目有坚实而创新的理论基础。在我的项目的第二年，我将培育一个图像样本，展示从20世纪90年代到现在约克市街道的演变，特别关注当地和独立企业高度集中的地区。这些图像将从各种来源收集，包括我自己的摄影记录与约克探索档案馆的图像，以及纽约新闻档案馆等新闻来源的图像。我将利用我在Bruks Coffee Shop的工作作为进行实地工作的一种手段，为我提供与城市转型有关的当地知识，并将利用我与常客之间的融洽关系，获得我打算进行的采访的参与者样本。这一阶段将包括30个访谈，在这些访谈中，我将利用照片启发来补充我的问题，并促使我的参与者简洁地表达。然后，在我的最后一年，我将把我收集的数据汇编成一篇连贯的、充满活力的论文，探索新形式的审美消费对城市的影响。我认为这个项目是有用的，因为它提供了对约克市新的经济和文化网络发展的洞察，并考虑了遗产在其社会空间的生产中发挥不可或缺的作用的方式。因此，我相信我的项目有潜力，不仅是在促进遏制项目和扩大相对狭窄的关于小城市的文献方面，而且是作为与约克本身的倡议，如约瑟夫·朗特里信托基金的预期合作努力。这是因为我打算以这种方式探索城市新增长形式的包容性潜力，重点放在欢乐和社区的概念上，如福斯盖特等城市地区。

The intention of my project is to explore the ways in which retail gentrification has changed the aesthetic character of the city of York. By focusing on the proliferation of independent businesses that characterise the ideals of 'hipsterfication', I intend to investigate the ways in which notions of heritage, authenticity and nostalgia have been appropriated into a particular aesthetic of consumption in the city. By drawing upon the work of Lorentzen and van Heur, I will argue that a specific cultural and political economy has developed in York as a small city, and that the proliferation of the 'hipster' as urban type has instigated a subtle yet visible aesthetic and cultural transformation in the city, with implications for community and consumption. Although I will begin an initial investigation of the city in the first year of study, I will dedicate the majority of this time to the completion of my literature review, ensuring that my project has a firm yet innovative theoretical grounding. During the second year of my project, I will cultivate a sample of images that illustrates the evolution of York's streets from the 1990s to the present, with a particular focus on areas with high concentrations of local and independent businesses. These images will be gathered from a variety of sources, incorporating my own photographic record with images from the York Explore Archive, and news sources such as the York Press Archive. I will use my job at Bruks Coffee Shop as a means of conducting field work that provides me with local knowledge pertaining to the transformation of the city, and will use the rapport that I have with regular customers to gain access to a sample of participants for the interviews that I intend to conduct. This stage will consist of 30 interviews, in which I will make use of photo elicitation to supplement my questions and to prompt succinct articulations from my participants. I will then, in my final year, compile the data that I have gathered into a coherent, vibrant thesis that explores the impact of new forms of aesthetic consumption on the city. I believe that this project is useful as it provides an insight into the development of new economic and cultural networks in the city of York, and considers the ways in which heritage plays an integral role in the production of its social space. Therefore I believe that my project has potential, not only in terms of contributing to the CUrb project, and expanding the relatively narrow literature on small cities, but also as a prospective collaborative effort with initiatives in York itself, such as The Joseph Rowntree Trust. This is due to the way in which I intend to explore inclusive potential of new forms of growth in the city, with a focus on notions of conviviality and community as exemplified by areas of the city, such as Fossgate.