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Activating the playful city: A review of ludic urbanism and introducing the ludic continuum framework 激活好玩的城市：滑稽城市主义回顾及滑稽连续体框架的介绍

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100641

M Tawfique , Ashraful Alam , Christina Ergler , Claire Freeman

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Unpacking the university-creative economy assemblage: the discourses, dynamics and possibilities of creative R&D programmes 解开大学-创意经济组合：创意研发项目的话语、动态和可能性

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100637

Liz Roberts , Jack Lowe , Simon Moreton

{"title":"Unpacking the university-creative economy assemblage: the discourses, dynamics and possibilities of creative R&D programmes","authors":"Liz Roberts , Jack Lowe , Simon Moreton","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The UK government's Creative Industries Sector Vision identifies the creative industries as a growth engine, supporting the state's ambition for the UK to be a global innovation hub and foregrounding the role of universities ‘to champion spin-outs’ and ‘enrich local SMEs with their applied research’ (June 2023). Attempts to mobilise universities as agents in regional creative economies via University-Industry R&D programmes have intensified in recent decades, with over £276 million invested since 2012 in programmes such as the AHRC's Creative Industries Clusters Programme, CoSTAR, XRtists and UKRI's Strength in Places Fund. This paper unpacks the imaginaries and mechanics of such projects to show how universities have become complicit in a political shift that positions innovation, knowledge exchange and technological capability as the most valuable forms of ‘creativity’, rather than other artistic, social, or cultural practices. We examine the often-inflexible structures of partnership, resourcing and knowledge hierarchies within higher education institutions (HEIs) that delimit the potential of universities as agents in regional creative economies. We explore how creative sector-facing practices performed by universities, such as knowledge exchange, performance measurement and administrative procedures, can reproduce an exclusionary and extractive vision of creative economies. Lastly, we consider what alternative practices of intermediation may exist to support a more progressive role for HEIs in the creative economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100637"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spaces of work, encounter, and representation of, and for, creative industries 创意产业的工作、相遇和表现空间

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100639

Ana Mafalda Madureira , Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte , Karin Pfeffer , Adiwan Aritenang

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The end of publicness in Yorubaland? Exploring the privatisation of public space in Ile-Ife, Nigeria 约鲁巴兰的公开性终结了吗？探索尼日利亚Ile-Ife的公共空间私有化

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100638

Temitope Muyiwa Adebara , Adewumi Israel Badiora , Adedotun Ayodele Dipeolu , Lateef Adeleke Adeniyi

{"title":"The end of publicness in Yorubaland? Exploring the privatisation of public space in Ile-Ife, Nigeria","authors":"Temitope Muyiwa Adebara , Adewumi Israel Badiora , Adedotun Ayodele Dipeolu , Lateef Adeleke Adeniyi","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Western urban theorists have critiqued the involvement of the private sector in the production and management of public space, contending that privatisation has led to the erosion of publicness and the decline of social life within the public sphere. However, there is a noticeable scarcity of empirical studies exploring the engagement of private actors in the politics of urban public space in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly within Yoruba society. This paper seeks to address this gap by investigating the privatisation of public space and its implications in Ile-Ife, a traditional Yoruba city in Nigeria. Employing a qualitative approach involving a systematic literature review, interviews and field observations, this paper reveals that the Yoruba city is experiencing the issues of over-management and under-management of public space, as highlighted in the Western homogenisation theory. Nevertheless, in contrast to the Western theory, privatisation does not result in the decline of publicness and sociability of public spaces in the Yoruba society. Key aspects of privatisation, such as commercialisation and controlled access, are integral to the traditional concepts of open space in Yorubaland. Findings show that privately owned spaces within gated communities and establishments, such as schools, hotels, hospitals, shopping complexes, churches, mosques, bars, and restaurants, support social and leisure activities. The emergence of contemporary public spaces does not alter the local concepts and meanings associated with social spaces. This paper argues that the Western framework for public space management is not entirely applicable in the traditional Yoruba context, emphasising the necessity for a contextual approach to public space planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100638"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144099504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Embeddedness of the audiovisual industries: from local clusters to global broadcasting 视听产业的嵌入性：从地方集群到全球传播

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100636

Bilyana Tomova , Diana Andreeva-Popyordanova , Tsveta Andreeva

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Attachment and (in)securities. Threats to the notion of rootedness in neighbourhood space in Barcelona 附件和（在）证券。对巴塞罗那社区空间中根植概念的威胁

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100635

Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona , Cristina López-Villanueva

{"title":"Attachment and (in)securities. Threats to the notion of rootedness in neighbourhood space in Barcelona","authors":"Montserrat Crespi-Vallbona , Cristina López-Villanueva","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100635","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100635","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lockdown due to Covid-19 reinforced the notion of proximity in the provision of well-being and the everyday care. The limitations on mobility meant the (re)discovery of neighbourhood life and of fellow residents. The neighbourhood was once again shown as a space of roots where shared loyalties and social identities were formed and reinforced social cohesion and generated mutual support networks in response to an unprecedented situation such as the pandemic. These powerful links pose important challenges in a post-pandemic context, resulting from recent urban processes arising from the cost of housing and questioning the consolidation of proximity, the concept of neighbourhood as community and the right to housing. This paper studies the main challenges to consolidate these ties in Barcelona. Based on analysis of 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted in two neighbourhoods (Montbau and Sant Antoni) and preceded by an analysis of secondary data related to residential (in)stability and mobility this article to explore the sense of belonging, community dynamics and the social cohesion. This research confirms two types of threats: a) recent urban processes that promote residential insecurity and, b) community dynamics that hinder integration and bonds. Obstructing neighbourhood ties breaks the social protection network.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100635"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143881732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Creative improvement, cultural infrastructure and urban zones: a tale of three cities and their cultural districts 创意改进、文化基础设施和城市区域：三个城市及其文化区的故事

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100634

Abigail Gilmore , Claire Burnill-Maier

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Urban creativity in Dakar: Postcolonial dialogues through art in the city 达喀尔的城市创意：通过城市艺术进行后殖民对话

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100633

Estrella Sendra

{"title":"Urban creativity in Dakar: Postcolonial dialogues through art in the city","authors":"Estrella Sendra","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dakar is a city continuously re-signified and transformed through arts, embodying postcolonial dialogues and serving as a public sphere for speculating African futures. Inspired by Oumar Ndao's multimodal portrait of Dakar as an “uncertain territory” (Ndao, 2020) and Felwine Sarr's philosophical concept of Afrotopia (Sarr, 2019), this article examines contemporary relationships between arts, creativity, urban spaces and the world within a postcolonial city. Through a focus on murals, festivals and film, I illustrate how Dakar operates as “an active utopia”, where artists imagine and rehearse a positive transformation of the continent. Urban creativity in Dakar can thus be defined as a <em>living canvas</em> for postcolonial dialogues and Afrotopian dreams. Murals serve as sites of memory, honouring Senegalese filmmakers and other figures, highlighting their contributions to cinema, the decolonisation of the gaze, and including them in histories that have excluded them. Festivals re-signify ruins of utopia, showcasing artistic work in direct connection with its urban context, reusing, recycling, and rehearsing more balanced futures. Films strengthen social and political critique, addressing tensions within fiction through the re-use of ruins of utopia. Together, these artistic forms offer canvases to envision Sarr's proposition of the Afrotopia, a place and mindset where humanity is central and there is a healthier balance between economic, cultural and spiritual orders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100633"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Symbolic trajectories in action: Digital technologies and representations of a stigmatized neighborhood 行动中的符号轨迹：数字技术和污名化社区的表现

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100623

Ju-Sung Lee , John D. Boy , Daniel Trottier

{"title":"Symbolic trajectories in action: Digital technologies and representations of a stigmatized neighborhood","authors":"Ju-Sung Lee , John D. Boy , Daniel Trottier","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100623","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100623","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The symbolic standing of a neighborhood has material consequences, and stigmatized neighborhoods are often locked into a disadvantageous position. So far scholars have mostly studied neighborhood change in terms of degradation or upgrading, but we adopt a complex perspective that accounts for the contested nature of the processes shaping “symbolic trajectories.” Seeking to gauge the role played by digital technologies in these processes, we studied a neighborhood in The Hague, the Netherlands. We report on our conceptual framework and research design, ethical protocols, as well as our findings and their implications. Our research combines a qualitative approach to the field with computational analyses. We investigate social media posts spanning a decade to understand how they align with symbolic trajectories. Our findings reveal competing symbolic trajectories sponsored by different kinds of actors, with a slight trend toward fewer denigrating representations. The relative divestment of major institutions from the neighborhood leaves greater room for maneuver for everyday users and resident initiatives in shaping the neighborhood image.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100623"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143684538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Extracting the night: Cultural extractivism and urban nightlife in Helsinki 抽取夜晚：赫尔辛基的文化抽取主义和城市夜生活

City, Culture and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100625

Giacomo Bottà

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