Creative Cities, Tourism and Street Art in a Global Frame

This book explores the use of street art tourism in eight cities: Barcelona, Paris, Porto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Montevideo, Bogota and Buenos Aires. While street art and graffiti are perpetually in the process of being discovered by scholars and cultural programmers as a practice full of potential, these contributions offer context and grounding and ask how, in a global setting, such art is used in tandem with tourism practices to interpret, codify, and make value out of space through institutional and community networks.

Structured using eight case studies and within via four thematic sections Uses case studies from Europe, US, South America offering the first comprehensive and transnational treatment of street art as a means of finding supposedly lost cities

Autorentext

Ricardo Klein is a Sociologist from the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and holds a PhD in Cultural Management and Heritage from the University of Barcelona. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia, Spain, and member of the Center for Studies on Culture, Power and Identities (UV).

Caitlin F. Bruce holds a PhD in Communication from Northwestern University, USA. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh and affiliate faculty with the Center for Latin American Studies, the Cultural Studies Center, and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Inhalt

1. Graffiti, Street Art, Tourism and Creative Cities in a Global Frame: The City as Discovery.- 2. Porto. Tensions between urban renewal and the use of street art as a tourist attraction.- 3. Cleveland: Philanthropic Tourism or Community Counter Reading: Race and Place in Rust Belt Rediscovery.- 4. Paris. Paris/Aubervilliers. In Situ Art Festival: Urban Art as Transitional Form for Urban Development.- 5. Buenos Aires. Shared imaginaries, tourism, and the creative city.- 6. Barcelona. The constitution of alternative tourism and the diversification of street art.- 7. Pittsburgh. Carrie Furnaces Urban Art Tour: Connecting Graffiti Culture and Industrial Patrimony through Aesthetics of Authenticity in Pennsylvania.- 8. Bogotá. Visual Noise and Activist Pedagogy through Street Art.- 9. Montevideo. A cultural city, receptive to urban art and tourism.- 10. Tensions, challenges, and future perspectives on the city as discovery.