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Can Art Solve Poverty? – (The Creative City Episode) E11

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This episode is a deep dive into the “creative city” model of urban planning. We talk about the ways that influential urban planners like Richard Florida and Charles Landry have promoted investment in the arts as a way to solve urban problems. We will answer the question, can art solve poverty? (Answer: No).

 

Key Sources:

Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class.

Landry, Charles. The Creative City A Toolkit for Innovators.

Melamed, Samantha. “Can this tiny storefront save Philly’s most drug-ravaged neighborhood?” Philadelphia Inquirer. March 30, 2017.

Denmead, Tyler. The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City.

Mould, Oli. Urban Subversion and the Creative City.

Montgomery, Alesia. “Reappearance of the Public. Placemaking, Minoritization, and Resistance in Detroit.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 2016.

 

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Public Art On Trial E04

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Public Art On Trial:

In this episode, we examine the ways that major funders of public art in the US have often sought to use public art as a tool of social engineering. What did these funders hope that public art would achieve? And were they successful in their efforts to transform the social life of American cities? We will look at a number of high profile public art projects and controversies and attempt to evaluate the goals and impacts of public art in the US.

References:

Richard Serra Interview 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgtcyuXQ4T4

The Trial of Tilted Arc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxyhgUAYvB4

Kwon, Miwon. “One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity.” https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262612029/one-place-after-another/

For info on urban renewal and Calder Plaza: Michigan Live: Awash in concrete: How Calder Plaza came to be: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2016/10/grand_rapids_urban_renewal_exp.html

 

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Pod logo based on photo by Ted Timmons, Edited by Colin McLaughlin-Alcock

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