The Right to the Creative City
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In 2002, Richard Florida, an urban studies scholar then at Carnegie Mellon University, published The Rise of the Creative Class, which became a surprise best-seller. In 2005, he followed that book with what he called a "prequel," Cities and the Creative Class.
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Art-thinking refers to the epistemological possibilities that art pursues as a mode of examining and engaging with the world.

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Viramontes demonstrates that each voice matters, particularly the “nobodies” who do walk in LA and who have been disregarded in the city’s modernization plans.

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In fall 2020, I set out to document San Francisco’s Mission Street. I saw storefronts doubling as murals, old and new catastrophes, enduring injustices.

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Artists in this exhibition responded to challenges of, and consolations of, sanctuary. Sanctuary, we learned, is not an abstraction; it is a relative term that we negotiate.

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When the "Early Days" statue was removed in San Francisco's Civic Center, community members mounted the empty plinth. We reclaimed it for the beauty and power of Native people.

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Is it possible to capture the complexity of urban experience in Delhi and Jakarta? These artists promote the visibility of marginalized communities.

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The first place you'll catch me when visiting a new town or city is usually a local coffeehouse, kind of absorbing the city through sitting at that cafe.

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Our challenge is to find a robust and repeatable approach to the work of describing the city.

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Attacked from the right and from the left, Richard Florida has always rolled with the punches.

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It is the art that gives the area visibility, importance and a sense of collective selfhood.

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Kara Walker's public installations in New York and New Orleans ask, what can contemporary art do to reckon with its links to racial capitalism?

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Banerjee’s paribartan goals in Kolkata exhibit overarching trends of capitalizing the colonial history in the desire for a neoliberal profit-oriented capitalistic future.

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We might consider the stories of thousands of people who may find some “insideness,” even in what seem the most outside and distant of places to the rest of us.

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Monuments are not passive, representational artworks; they present opportunities for collective conversation.

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Iseeyou (2013) is a short film essay by Simon Gush, depicting Johannesburg’s representations of mining. The film deftly questions what is at stake in the visibility and invisibility of labor. [1] The title invokes the name of the Industrial and Commercial Workers, widely known as (ICU founded in...

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Michael B. Kahan and Janet Delaney discuss the history of San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood from 1970 to the present.