Buzz as an Urban Resource

Authors

  • Daniel Silver University of Toronto
  • Terry Nichols Clark University of Chicago

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs10514

Keywords:

urban culture, urban politics, buzz, scenes, symbolic resources

Abstract

The global rise of arts and culture is transforming local politics. Though new to many academic urban analysts, this is a commonplace for many mayors and local policymakers around the world. We seek to overcome this divide by joining culture and the arts with classic concepts of urban politics. We offer an analytical framework incorporating the politics of cultural policy alongside the typical political economic concerns in the urban politics and development literatures. Our framework synthesizes several research streams that combine in global factors driving the articulation of culture into city politics. This frames our studies of the local processes through which this articulation occurs on the ground in Toronto and Chicago.

Author Biographies

Daniel Silver, University of Toronto

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology

Terry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago

Professor Department of Sociology

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Published

2013-03-29

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