Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative
industries in the case of Brno's former prison

J 2020

Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison

ALEXANDRESCU, Filip, Robert OSMAN, Petr KLUSÁČEK and Jiří MALÝ

Basic information

Original name

Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison

Authors

ALEXANDRESCU, Filip, Robert OSMAN, Petr KLUSÁČEK and Jiří MALÝ

Edition

Cities, Elsevier, 2020, 0264-2751

Other information

Language

Czech

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 5.835

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102578

Keywords in English

Creative industries; Relational place-making; Post-socialism; Historical memory

Abstract

V originále

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.

Citovat

ALEXANDRESCU, Filip, Robert OSMAN, Petr KLUSÁČEK and Jiří MALÝ. Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison. Cities. Elsevier, 2020, vol. 98, 10 pp. ISSN 0264-2751. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102578.

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ALEXANDRESCU, Filip, Robert OSMAN, Petr KLUSÁČEK and Jiří MALÝ. Taming the genius loci? Contesting post-socialist creative industries in the case of Brno's former prison. \textit{Cities}. Elsevier, 2020, vol.~98, 10 pp. ISSN~0264-2751. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102578.

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