Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy

In the past thirty years culture has been used as a mean for revitalizing neighbourhoods and branding the urban economy. Often, culture-led urban policies have had undesirable consequences in terms of rising rents, displacement of former residents and changes in the economic and retail landscape, i....

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Autor: Gainza Barrencua, Xabier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:cultural industries
cultural clusters
neighbourhood renewal
gentrification
local identity
Bilbao
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spelling Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomyGainza Barrencua, Xabiercultural industriescultural clustersneighbourhood renewalgentrificationlocal identityBilbaoIn the past thirty years culture has been used as a mean for revitalizing neighbourhoods and branding the urban economy. Often, culture-led urban policies have had undesirable consequences in terms of rising rents, displacement of former residents and changes in the economic and retail landscape, i.e. gentrification. However, this process is not univocal and displacement may not occur while disrupting community life. In this paper we explore the changes that have occurred in San Francisco, a working-class neighbourhood of Bilbao where the attraction of cultural industries has been used to revitalize the area and change the city image. We employ a framework that considers the built form, the cultural cluster organization and the socioeconomic and demographic changes and we rely on different sources of evidence, including neighbourhood level socioeconomic data, personal interviews and a participatory evaluation, to capture the edges of this complex phenomenon. Our analysis suggests a less deterministic and more complex characterization of culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalization/gentrification discourses, since conflicts may not be driven by economic transformations and social class replacement, but by the symbolic representation of space and the ‘right to the neighbourhood’.Sage202520252016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/72954reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://doi.org/10.1177/004209801663050info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess© 2016 Urban Studies Journal Limitedoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/729542026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
title Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
spellingShingle Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
Gainza Barrencua, Xabier
cultural industries
cultural clusters
neighbourhood renewal
gentrification
local identity
Bilbao
title_short Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
title_full Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
title_fullStr Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
title_full_unstemmed Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
title_sort Culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalisation/gentrification dichotomy
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gainza Barrencua, Xabier
author Gainza Barrencua, Xabier
author_facet Gainza Barrencua, Xabier
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv cultural industries
cultural clusters
neighbourhood renewal
gentrification
local identity
Bilbao
topic cultural industries
cultural clusters
neighbourhood renewal
gentrification
local identity
Bilbao
description In the past thirty years culture has been used as a mean for revitalizing neighbourhoods and branding the urban economy. Often, culture-led urban policies have had undesirable consequences in terms of rising rents, displacement of former residents and changes in the economic and retail landscape, i.e. gentrification. However, this process is not univocal and displacement may not occur while disrupting community life. In this paper we explore the changes that have occurred in San Francisco, a working-class neighbourhood of Bilbao where the attraction of cultural industries has been used to revitalize the area and change the city image. We employ a framework that considers the built form, the cultural cluster organization and the socioeconomic and demographic changes and we rely on different sources of evidence, including neighbourhood level socioeconomic data, personal interviews and a participatory evaluation, to capture the edges of this complex phenomenon. Our analysis suggests a less deterministic and more complex characterization of culture-led neighbourhood transformations beyond the revitalization/gentrification discourses, since conflicts may not be driven by economic transformations and social class replacement, but by the symbolic representation of space and the ‘right to the neighbourhood’.
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