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Creating successful, diverse cities
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Levitt, Peggy |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | This chapter looks at the role that cultural institutions play in helping to create viable diverse cities. It argues that how cultural institutions represent and respond to the challenges of heightened migration and increasing diversity is, in part, a function of the cultural armature of the cities where they are located – their history, demography, diversity management regimes, and the deep cultural structures laid down by their founders. How institutions respond is also a function of the city and nation's position in the global cultural hierarchy which, in turn, affects how much museums are influenced by and influence global museum assemblages. National and urban cultural politics interdependently shape the warp and woof of museum practice in countries of different sizes, populations, and degrees of cultural centralisation, but the globalisation of the museum sector also weaves itself between the threads.This chapter examines the role that cultural institutions play in helping to create successful diverse cities or less residentially and socially segregated places where people from different classes, races, religions, and sexual orientations share public space convivially with one another. It focuses on museums in Boston and New York. The chapter examines how these two factors – the urban cultural armature and the city's position within the global cultural hierarchy – affect how museums respond to increasing demographic diversity. Comparing the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA) and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City provides a natural experiment for exploring these questions. Both the MFA and the Brooklyn Museum rewrote American art story, but they did it using different syntaxes and with different goals in mind. The Brooklyn narrative, told on one floor with comfortable chairs and bright blue and green walls, is directed toward new or inexperienced museum goers who need a special welcome to come in. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2017-0-61579-5&isbn=9781351108478&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 62 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 51 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351108478-6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-09-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities Cultural Studies Urban Cultural Institutions Play Cultural Hierarchy Creating Successful Global Cultural Cultural Armature |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
