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Full Title

Engaging Comparative Urbanism Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin 1st Edition

Author(s)

Julie Ren

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781529207071, 9781529207057, 9781529207088, 9781529207064, 9781529207095

Publisher

Bristol University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.