Culture and Sustainable Development in the City

This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies.

Introduction: Culture and Sustainable Development in the City - Urban Spaces of Possibilities Sacha Kagan, with Antoniya Hauerwaas, Verena Holz and Patricia Wedler 1. Imagination and Imaginaries of Sustainability in Cultural and Artistic Practices Sacha Kagan 2. Neralu, Bangalore/Bengaluru's Tree Festival: Creative Engagement with Narratives on Bengaluru City Deepak Srinivasan 3. Entrepreneurship in Conventions, Place-Making and Spaces of Creativity Sacha Kagan 4. Chicago's Embedded Artist as Double Agent: An Interview with Frances Whitehead Frances Whitehead and Sacha Kagan 5. Spaces for Challenging Experiences, Indeterminacy, and Experimentation Sacha Kagan 6. Farewell to the White Space?: Overcoming Racism in Baltimore's Artistic Fields Volker Kirchberg 7. PlanBude: A New Participative Instrument for Cooperative Urban Planning Patricia Wedler and Renée Tribble 8. Places of Hope: Approaches to Building a New City Oleksandra Nenko 9. Practices and Policies from Spaces of Possibilities to Institutional Innovations Sacha Kagan, Antoniya Hauerwaas, Verena Holz and Patricia Wedler 10. Why is There So Much Space Given to Cars in the City?: Creative Practices and Possibilities in Singapore Andrew Lee 11. Networks in Sustainable Urban Development - An Empirical Study Volker Kirchberg 12. Culturing Community: Nurturing Urban Biocultural Diversity in the Wild West Beth Carruthers Conclusion: The City as Space of Possibilities Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg