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Artists‐Accompanied Urban Regeneration: Insights and Lessons from Utrecht and Rotterdam
Author(s) -
Zebracki Martin,
Smulders Lévi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2012.00748.x
Subject(s) - regeneration (biology) , urban regeneration , space (punctuation) , urban space , sociology , public space , urban planning , political science , regional science , geography , civil engineering , environmental planning , architectural engineering , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Urban regeneration in D utch cities is increasingly accompanied by the cultural sector in general and by artists in particular. This paper presents comparative case studies on current artists‐accompanied urban regeneration initiated by housing corporations in U trecht and R otterdam. On the basis of discourse analysis on the voices of decisive actors, it explores the rationale behind artists‐accompanied urban regeneration and the sociospatial implications thereof. It empirically indicates that housing corporations are more inclined to deploy artists in urban regeneration when there are sufficient vacant buildings. It also illustrates that more decentralised housing corporations have a stronger and more long‐term commitment to urban regeneration. The latter includes a greater commitment to interventions by artists within urban public space.