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The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in EuropeArtists as Initiators of Urban Transformation: Are Gentrification and Touristification Inevitable? A Case Study of the Reuter Quarter in Neukölln, Berlin

The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe: Artists as Initiators of Urban... [By analysing the case of the Reuter Quarter in the inner-city Neukölln borough of Berlin, this paper addresses how urban artistic and cultural uses, e.g., retail stores and new types of services, could be a cause for the process of gentrification. The Reuter Quarter has been identified as an area in decline by the municipality, home to a high percentage of immigrants. However, since the mid-2000s, promoted by the publically financed Quartiersmanagement (neighbourhood management) and the Zwischennutzungsagentur (Temporary Use Agency), artists and eventually other creatives started to settle here, creating a positive image for the area and turning the district into a ‘cool place’ or a ‘place to be’. The area’s new attractiveness has led to the upgrading of buildings and the boosting of rent prices in and around the area. In the early stages, it resembled a positive revitalisation, but later the area became a ‘scene district’, well valued in the housing market, and facing rapid urban transformations: gentrification and touristification as a destination for nightlife tourists. This paper examines the significant role of artists within the gentrification process, especially in attracting new retail capital, new types of services, cafés, bars and restaurants, all of which stimulate touristification.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in EuropeArtists as Initiators of Urban Transformation: Are Gentrification and Touristification Inevitable? A Case Study of the Reuter Quarter in Neukölln, Berlin

Part of the GeoJournal Library Book Series (volume 123)
Editors: Murzyn-Kupisz, Monika; Działek, Jarosław
Ikeda, Mariko
The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe — Apr 5, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53215-8
Pages
67 –90
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53217-2_3
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Abstract

[By analysing the case of the Reuter Quarter in the inner-city Neukölln borough of Berlin, this paper addresses how urban artistic and cultural uses, e.g., retail stores and new types of services, could be a cause for the process of gentrification. The Reuter Quarter has been identified as an area in decline by the municipality, home to a high percentage of immigrants. However, since the mid-2000s, promoted by the publically financed Quartiersmanagement (neighbourhood management) and the Zwischennutzungsagentur (Temporary Use Agency), artists and eventually other creatives started to settle here, creating a positive image for the area and turning the district into a ‘cool place’ or a ‘place to be’. The area’s new attractiveness has led to the upgrading of buildings and the boosting of rent prices in and around the area. In the early stages, it resembled a positive revitalisation, but later the area became a ‘scene district’, well valued in the housing market, and facing rapid urban transformations: gentrification and touristification as a destination for nightlife tourists. This paper examines the significant role of artists within the gentrification process, especially in attracting new retail capital, new types of services, cafés, bars and restaurants, all of which stimulate touristification.]

Published: Apr 5, 2017

Keywords: Artists; New retail capital; Gentrification; Touristification; Berlin-Neukölln; Temporary use

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