The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities (EPUB) von Alison L. Bain

This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments.

1. Introduction: configuring urban cultural infrastructure
Alison Bain and Julie Podmore

Part I: Producing culture
2. Clustering cultural infrastructure in districts
Alison Bain

3. The relational infrastructure of Open Creative Labs
Suntje Schmidt

4. Affordable studio space as cultural infrastructure: land trusts and the future of creative cities
Rhian Scott, Luke Dickens and Phil Hubbard

Part II: Performing culture
5. The infrastructural politics of post-pandemic theatrical performance
Megan A. Johnson and Marlis Schweitzer

6. The performative contingency of cultural infrastructure
Jessie Stein

7. Embodying cultural infrastructure in Carnival
Martha Radice

8. Youthful city-making through peripheral cultural infrastructure
Antonio Moya-Latorre

Part III: Consuming culture
9. Hawker culture and its infrastructure: experiences and contestations in everyday life
Lily Kong and Aidan Wong

10. Aestheticizing hipster retail infrastructure: from Neapolitan to cosmopolitan
Bryan Mark

11. Crafting alternative urban fashion infrastructure in a digital and pandemic age
Taylor Brydges, Deborah Leslie and Norma Rantisi

12. Embodying arts festivals as infrastructural transformation of places
Bernadette Quinn

Part IV: Collecting culture
13. Infrastructuring museums
Friederike Landau-Donnelly

14. Becoming socio-cultural infrastructure: librarizing practices in public libraries
Rianne van Melik

15. Queer counter-topographies: LGBTQ+ community archives as urban cultural infrastructure
Julie Podmore

16. Conclusion: Reconfiguring urban cultural infrastructure
Alison Bain, Julie Podmore and Chan Arun-Pina