Imagineering cultural Vienna : on the semiotic regulation of Vienna's culture-led urban transformation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suitner, Johannes (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:German
Published: Bielefeld, [Germany] : transcript, 2015.
Series:Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Imagineering Cultural Vienna; Contents; Cultural Imagineering. A first encounter; Planning with culture between materiality and meaning; Research approach; Contextualizing urban development. Cities between materiality and meaning.; A spatial turn: The city as discursive process?; The multi-scalar city: Between local and global; Urban economies in transition: From production to consumption; Pluralization, fragmentation, and an urban revival in a postmodern age; The contested politics of planning. Ideology and power, accumulation and representation
  • The changed face of the state: New coalitions, new development goalsNew modes of planning: Constructing identity and difference; The political in planning: Contests over accumulation and representation; Linking culture, city, and planning. Entering a cultural era in urban development; An agent of change: The salient narratives of culturalization for capitalization; Culture for representation: Between hegemony and cultural pluralism; Theorizing Cultural Imagineering. Conceptualizing the discursive regulation of culture-led place transformation
  • Empirical research design. De- and reconstructing Cultural Imagineering in practiceMaterial context: Vienna's development trajectory; The construction of cultural imaginaries: Critical Discourse Analysis; Triangulation and hidden information: Narrative interviews; Confronting discourse with material practice; Contextualizing "Cultural Vienna". Retracing the cultural development trajectory; Morphology, urban structures and spatial development; Vienna's socio-economic development path; Urban politics and the culture of planning; The institutional setting
  • The strategic layer: Vienna's politics of planningStrategically approaching culture: Vienna between hub and heritage; Karlsplatz: A cultural economy for global tourism; Development background; The discursive construction of Karlsplatz; Materializations of the cultural imaginary; Transformation as hegemonic material practice?; Seestadt Aspern: Cultural symbolism for entrepreneurial urbanism; Development background; The discursive construction of Seestadt Aspern; Materializations of the cultural imaginary; Transformation as hegemonic material practice?
  • Brunnenviertel: Capitalizing on cultural diversityDevelopment background; The discursive construction of Brunnenviertel; Materializations of the cultural imaginary; Transformation as hegemonic material practice?; Cultural Vienna revisited. Rationales, imaginaries, and hegemonic practice; Uncerlying rationales of planning the city with culture; Culture-led hegemonic economic and ideological projects; Towards a culturized planning practice. Conclusions on Cultural Imagineering; The Cultural Imagineering of Vienna