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The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in EuropeBeyond Art in ‘Meanwhile Spaces’: Temporary Parks, Urban Governance and the Co-production of Urban Space

The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe: Beyond Art in ‘Meanwhile... [Since the 1980s, city governments have increasingly focused on the adaptive reuse of brownfield sites to address urban dereliction through top-down policy guidance and funding initiatives. Since the onset of the economic and banking crisis in 2008, this approach has become more difficult and one response has been the encouragement of ‘meanwhile uses’ through the introduction of temporary activities on brownfield sites, as short-term alternatives. Much of these activities have been influenced by creative city debates centred on artists, the arts and creativity as important economic tools and agents. However this focus ignores the wider contributions to urbanism of such activities, often in marginal locations. Focusing on the city of Dublin, this chapter examines the pop-up Granby Park. This park was developed on a site formerly targeted for social housing but a victim of the crisis and collapse of the property market. The development of this park by a creative collective, Upstart, challenged how we think about vacancy in the city and highlights the potential and challenges of more informal but creative types of urban governance.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in EuropeBeyond Art in ‘Meanwhile Spaces’: Temporary Parks, Urban Governance and the Co-production of Urban Space

Part of the GeoJournal Library Book Series (volume 123)
Editors: Murzyn-Kupisz, Monika; Działek, Jarosław
Moore-Cherry, Niamh
The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe — Apr 5, 2017
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53215-8
Pages
207 –224
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53217-2_9
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Abstract

[Since the 1980s, city governments have increasingly focused on the adaptive reuse of brownfield sites to address urban dereliction through top-down policy guidance and funding initiatives. Since the onset of the economic and banking crisis in 2008, this approach has become more difficult and one response has been the encouragement of ‘meanwhile uses’ through the introduction of temporary activities on brownfield sites, as short-term alternatives. Much of these activities have been influenced by creative city debates centred on artists, the arts and creativity as important economic tools and agents. However this focus ignores the wider contributions to urbanism of such activities, often in marginal locations. Focusing on the city of Dublin, this chapter examines the pop-up Granby Park. This park was developed on a site formerly targeted for social housing but a victim of the crisis and collapse of the property market. The development of this park by a creative collective, Upstart, challenged how we think about vacancy in the city and highlights the potential and challenges of more informal but creative types of urban governance.]

Published: Apr 5, 2017

Keywords: Temporary urbanism; Meanwhile spaces; Temporary parks; Governance; Artists; Regeneration

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