{"title":"Extracting the night: Cultural extractivism and urban nightlife in Helsinki","authors":"Giacomo Bottà","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100625","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Adopting the concept of cultural extractivism, this article scrutinises how nightlife activities and spaces for live music are increasingly dependent on the forces of financialisation, which extract layers of material and immaterial assets for economic gain. Underground practices can temporarily disrupt this process, facilitating the emergence of alternative cultural practices; however, this cannot offer adequate lasting solutions and can only be addressed by creating a more equal and fairer city.</div><div>Drawing on insights from cultural studies, sociology and urban studies, this work contributes to a nuanced comprehension of the interplay between live music, the urban night, capitalist exploitation and resistance. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with city officials, club owners, party organisers, participants and DJs, the study presents a fresh perspective on the vulnerability of music ecosystems in the context of contemporary urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"41 ","pages":"Article 100625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562919","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}
{"title":"Emergence and fall of the Hollywood punk scene in Los Angeles: Analysis of place-bound attributes vs translocal factors","authors":"Sébastien Darchen","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100624","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The article analyses the development and evolution of the punk music scene in Hollywood mostly composed of expatriates coming from different states in the U.S, from L.A.’s outer suburbs and from overseas. Methodologically, I used interviews with the scene's main participants to document the key bands' trajectories and to identify elements that facilitated the emergence of the scene. To study the influence of local factors vs translocal factors, I considered Crossley's (2009) approach in his analysis of scenes and his attention to participants' networks. The article makes a distinction between what is ‘local’ in music scenes and elements associated to the trans-local dimension of scenes in the pre-internet age. In conclusion, given the positioning of Los Angeles as a World City and not being one of the birthplaces of American music, the influence of translocal factors in shaping the Hollywood punk scene was high. However, local factors such as the availability of venues for punk shows and the inputs of Mexican American artists coming from East L.A. enabled this short-lived music cluster to develop a specific brand of punk characterised notably by musical hybridization between punk and American roots music.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100624"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143369652","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}
{"title":"More economic diversity, less vulnerability? The case of Quito","authors":"Susana Herrero Olarte, Jeniffer Rubio, Domenica Miño","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100622","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100622","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Economic residential segregation is the separation of social groups in different areas of a city according to their income level. Neighborhoods have their urban characteristics or attributes. Active attributes can limit or improve access to goods or services, functionalities, or capabilities required to meet citizens' needs. This article focuses on economic diversity as an active attribute. Economic diversity is understood as the number of different types and sizes of companies represented in the same territory. Traditionally, urban planning has had two main views on economic diversity within neighborhoods. On the one hand, the proposal of the “right to the city” considers that economic diversity is an active attribute that promotes residents' access to goods and services, functionalities, and capacities to escape poverty. On the other hand, for the theory of functionalism, economic diversity is an active attribute that prevents income from improving. This article explores the relationship between the economic diversity score and vulnerability, taking the city of Quito as a case study. After calculating, mapping, and establishing the relationships between the two variables by neighborhood, it is concluded that economic diversity is an active attribute of Quito due to residential segregation and can limit the income and ability of residents of marginalized communities to escape poverty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100622"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172427","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}
{"title":"Models for cultural development strategies and the experience of medium-sized cities in Central and Eastern Europe — A case of Poland","authors":"Stefania Środa-Murawska","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores cultural development strategies in medium-sized cities in Poland, aiming to identify their types and evaluate their application in the context of post-socialist transformations. The typology proposed by Grodach and Loukaitou-Sideris was adapted for the Polish context. Findings reveal a predominantly progressive approach, emphasizing support for local communities and cultural production, alongside partial adoption of entrepreneurial strategies aimed at city promotion and tourism. A new strategy type, ‘cultural identity rejuvenation’ (CIR), is introduced. It is characteristic of medium-sized post-socialist cities in Central and Eastern Europe and reflects activities such as revitalizing city centers, constructing cultural facilities, and promoting local heritage. The study illustrates that while these cities try to adopt Western models of cultural strategies, the evolution of their cultural sector is profoundly shaped by their socialist heritage and systemic transformation challenges. The findings highlight the pivotal role of cultural strategies in driving social transformation and economic growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100621"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172428","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}
Olga Kolokytha , Raffaela Gmeiner , Tove Henriksson , Anna Anetta Janowska
{"title":"Let's play equal! Researching mechanisms of inequalities in the music and games sectors using the Global Production Network approach","authors":"Olga Kolokytha , Raffaela Gmeiner , Tove Henriksson , Anna Anetta Janowska","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper researches the mechanisms generating inequalities in the music and games sectors using the Global Production Network approach. It explores where, how and in what form inequalities are found in the music and games sectors through the examination of three case studies. By unpacking the structure and dynamics of the production network of each case study, it identifies power imbalances and how inequalities are created through different power relations. Three types of inequalities are discussed, namely market access, gender and intersectionality, and working conditions. The paper also showcases the importance of the GPN perspective for the CCS: GPN enables a holistic understanding of inequalities in different phases of CCS in a detailed and causal way which can, in turn, facilitate the adoption of policies and measures that address all phases of the production network rather than concentrating in just one.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172429","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}
{"title":"What is nocturnal about night studies? Insights from Turin, Italy","authors":"Enrico Petrilli , Alberto Vanolo","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100617","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100617","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The relation between the urban diurnal and the urban nocturnal has been famously conceptualized with the metaphor of the <em>night as frontier</em>. Originally proposed by Murray Melbin in 1978, the phrase suggests that the nocturnal has been gradually colonized by the capitalist logics of the day. This article contributes to provincializing night studies by postulating a nonlinear and non-dichotomous relation between the urban diurnal and nocturnal. Specifically, the article adopts the philosophical perspective of the <em>constitutive outside</em>, as articulated in a recent strand of contemporary urban studies, exploring the paradoxical and even contradictory generative tensions shaping the meanings, materialities and politics of the urban night. This theoretical posture is explored through the case of Turin, Italy, a city that has developed a complex tension between the diurnal and the nocturnal which cannot be interpreted simply from a dichotomistic perspective, as the metaphor of the urban frontier suggests.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100617"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172430","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}
{"title":"The public library building as nexus for social interactions: Cases from Helsinki","authors":"Christine Mady, Hossam Hewidy","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public libraries are public spaces that simultaneously respond to and reshape their contexts, by bundling different programme, and numerous functions that synergistically support social interactions among diverse users. They offer domestic, work and leisure environments, hubs and platforms for civic dialogue, encounter, tolerance of differences and exposure to cultures. Less is known about the interaction between library buildings and their surroundings, or the influence of their design and governance on social practices. Through a relational perspective, this article explores how library buildings interact with their surroundings, what the implications of their spatial qualities, and governance are for deterring or promoting various user activities. Two case studies in Helsinki, Oodi and Maunula libraries are used in this investigation. Findings reveal linkages between outdoor spaces and the libraries, with Oodi merging with surrounding outdoor activities and Maunula's management transforming the perception of a stigmatised space. The flexibility in space governance supports social interaction and informs about future considerations regarding social outreach. The buildings' design with transparent, open spaces and flexible layouts provides alternative uses and allow adaptations to cater for diverse leisure, work, education activities and support social relations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 100610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142747955","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}
{"title":"Urban religion and gendered bodies","authors":"Natalie Lang","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100609","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The relation between religion and the city is one of mutual social, political, architectural, conceptual and experiential formation. This special issue shifts debates on religion and the city to the body as the site of religious and urban experience, and as a site of regulation and negotiation. Examining Muslim femininities and masculinities in cities in Asia, the collection of articles highlights the gendered dimensions of religious notions of bodies and body practices. Taking the gendered body as a lens of analysis provides important insights into how the religious and the urban affect one another. The special issue demonstrates how religious aspirations, as they intersect with religious and gendered notions of the body and minoritarian experiences, impact how cities are navigated, shaped and appropriated. Religiously informed body practices such as clothing, veiling and beard styles are urban spatial practices that inform and contribute to practitioners' religious and urban experiences. The collection includes case studies on South Asian Muslim embodied masculinities in Hong Kong, Muslim women's urban experiences in Delhi, Chinese female Muslim converts' strategies in Hong Kong, and Muslim male fashion politics in urban Malaysia. Together, the articles highlight gender-specific religious body practices and urban experiences as changing, situational and context-specific.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100609"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655390","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}
{"title":"Decoding urban power: Architecture, symbolism and territorial control in Caracas","authors":"Teresa García Alcaraz","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100608","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100608","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the conflictual dynamics surrounding the utilisation of state-architecture and symbolic imagery as instruments for power consolidation, profoundly shaping national identity and perceptions within the built environment. Drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of symbolic power and cultural capital, this research illuminates the complex interplay between architecture, territory and power. It offers insights into the endurance of societal values and the ongoing renegotiation and reconfiguration of urban space. The research also analyses how urban planning and territorial practices can ignite resistance and challenge existing power structures. The city of Caracas serves as a case study, where two key strategies employed by the current government are analysed: the “Great Housing Mission Venezuela” and the proliferation of Chávez symbolism across the urban realm. By exploring these territorialisation practices in Las Adjuntas, Macarao, the study further unveils the dynamics of power and socio-spatial hierarchies encoded in the urban landscape. These architectural and symbolic interventions are interpreted as attempts to shape perceived realities, consolidate hegemonic control, and regulate the city's socio-spatial order. The findings assert that these practices not only reflect power distribution, but also grant the potential for dominating, producing and controlling territories in nuanced ways. This multidisciplinary study provides a novel framework for decoding power structures embedded in the built environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100608"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142533012","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}
Asadullah Hanif , Jalil Ahmad Zakiri , Shakib Mirzahi , Ghulam Mohammad Asim , Ghulam Farooq Nadeem
{"title":"Analysis of contextual factors influencing the development of unplanned settlements: The case of Herat City, Afghanistan","authors":"Asadullah Hanif , Jalil Ahmad Zakiri , Shakib Mirzahi , Ghulam Mohammad Asim , Ghulam Farooq Nadeem","doi":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100607","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ccs.2024.100607","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Afghanistan, unplanned settlements are developed without government intervention. Several factors contribute to the appearance of these settlements, with studies indicating that over 70% of Afghanistan's cities lack proper planning. The aim of this study was to investigate contextual factors influencing the formation of unplanned settlements in Herat City using a qualitative research approach and semi-structured interviews. A variety of factors contributed significantly to the proliferation of unplanned settlements in Herat, including rapid urban population growth, poverty, corruption, bureaucratic obstacles, inadequate urban management capacity, a lack of citizen participation in urban planning, insufficient government support for low-income housing, the absence of clear legal frameworks for land ownership and housing, and cultural influences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39061,"journal":{"name":"City, Culture and Society","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100607"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142533013","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}