Engaging Comparative Urbanism: Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529207057)

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.

Author: Julie Ren
ISBN-10: 1529207053
ISBN-13: 9781529207057
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2021
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.60d