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Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison
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SYSNO ASEP 0534164 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison Author(s) Alexandrescu, Filip Mihai (UGN-S)
Osman, Robert (UGN-S) RID, ORCID, SAI
Klusáček, Petr (UGN-S) RID, ORCID
Malý, Jiří (UGN-S) ORCID, SAI, RIDNumber of authors 4 Article number 102578 Source Title Cities. - : Elsevier - ISSN 0264-2751
Roč. 98, March 2020 (2020)Number of pages 10 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords creative industries ; relational place-making ; post-socialism ; historical memory Subject RIV DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography OECD category Urban studies (planning and development) R&D Projects GA17-26934S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support UGN-S - RVO:68145535 UT WOS 000514758100017 EID SCOPUS 85077433846 DOI 10.1016/j.cities.2019.102578 Annotation In the increasingly tight race of inter-urban competition, the idea that cities have to be made creative has gripped the imagination of urban planners and scholars alike. This process is imagined as straightforward, readily exportable and devoid of conflict. The paper uses the perspective of relational place-making to reveal the creative city imperative as a political process. This is carried out through the medium of conflict, which brings about two contrasting place frames, which progressively reveal each other's political connections. We use the case of a former central-European prison, located in Brno, the Czech Republic, to show how making a city creative is just one possible framing of a place, how making cities attractive to creative individuals engenders resistance and how historical memory summons the powerful genius loci, that is nevertheless relational and contingent. The results illustrate in detail how the conflict between development and preservation unfolds around six axes of opposition that define the two frames (e.g. future vs. past, part vs. whole etc.) and how these axes are themselves linked to various concepts of place and time.
Workplace Institute of Geonics Contact Lucie Gurková, lucie.gurkova@ugn.cas.cz, Tel.: 596 979 354 Year of Publishing 2021 Electronic address https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275118316056
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