A constellation of stars: what a local newspaper talks about when it talks about star architecture

Lindsay, Georgia; Sawyer, Mark H.

doi:10.1080/09654313.2021.1892031

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“…Broudehoux and Cheli (2021) leverage multiple cases of the same typology but across countries and continents to build an understanding of how memorial architecture can be an example of star architecture without engaging in the economic arguments of the Bilbao Effect. Three others, in contrast, use multiple cases to understand local effectsin the case of Lindsay and Sawyer (2021), studying the media effects of multiple buildings in the same regional city demonstrates that star architecture projects serve the need of place-making for local residents. Grubbauer and Dimitrova (2021) use multiple buildings in a single country to demonstrate how star architecture projects respond to norms and regulations, offering a basis for comparison in other contexts.…”

Section: Methods To Study Star Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Five papers in this special issue address ideas of star architecture and the media. In studying what newspaper articles say when they talk about star architecture buildings and projects, Lindsay and Sawyer (2021) uncover the important role that local newspapers and media coverage play in urban transformations. In contrast, Plaza, Aranburu, and Esteban (2021) look internationally, grounding their research in the notion that some buildings act as celebrities in the global media.…”

Section: Star Architecture and The Mediamentioning

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Star architecture and urban transformation: introduction to the special issue

Alaily-Mattar

Lindsay

Thierstein

2021

European Planning Studies

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For nearly as long as there have been urban centres, exceptional architecture projects have contributed to transforming city form and city fortunes. In this special issue of 'European Planning Studies', we focus on star architecture and its ability to contribute to urban transformation, with articles on the phenomenon of star architecture from a range of disciplines. Star architecture is a topic where concerns about place, identity, economy, innovation and communication intersect. In this introduction to the special issue, we overview how star architecture participates in urban transformations, and address how research into star architecture connects to ideas of identity and branding, the media, the economy, urban governance and architecture itself. We also overview methodologies for studying star architecture and urban transformation: the choice of research methods and research approach affects the problematization and the types of research questions that can be answered. Studying star architecture offers insight into disparate fields including network analysis, media studies, geography, planning, cultural economy, identity, branding and spectacle. By looking beyond economic effects, researchers can expand the audience for studies of star architecture, and more fully understand its role in urban transformation.

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Section: Methods To Study Star Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Star Architecture and The Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Star architecture and urban transformation: introduction to the special issue

Alaily-Mattar

Lindsay

Thierstein

2021

European Planning Studies

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“…What is really going on, as occurs in cultural-creative planning nearly everywhere, is an exercise in persuasion to attract the attention of residents, migrants, visitors and investors and monetise their taste for the quirky or unusual in the ambience of the restored, repurposed and revived industrial setting, which is shaped into a 'soft branded', post-industrial, perhaps post-modern, 'simulacrum' [15]. To underline this judgement, we briefly turn to the manner in which cultural planning policy was pursued in the neighbouring state to North Adams, namely upstate New York, and the comparable industrial villages and towns of the Catskill Mountains, such as Schenectady, Troy, Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls [18]. Of interest in this analysis [19] is the elision Should only be [18] between the quest for 'authenticity' in planning and in Internet studies.…”

Section: Urban Planning As Soft Brandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To underline this judgement, we briefly turn to the manner in which cultural planning policy was pursued in the neighbouring state to North Adams, namely upstate New York, and the comparable industrial villages and towns of the Catskill Mountains, such as Schenectady, Troy, Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls [18]. Of interest in this analysis [19] is the elision Should only be [18] between the quest for 'authenticity' in planning and in Internet studies. The latter includes studies of 'influencer culture' and the 'attention economy', but both authenticity and social media combine to create desires at the individual and jurisdictional levels for the consumption of online and offline identity performance.…”

Section: Urban Planning As Soft Brandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Innovation, Soft Branding and Green Influencers: Critiquing ‘Fast Fashion’ and ‘Overtourism’

Cooke

Nunes

Oliva

et al. 2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This paper explores digital reality replication for cultural consumption and green-digital open-system innovation, along with responsible, sustainable practices fashioned in a post-COVID-19 era. We address these after the dystopian effects of lockdown on global tourism and, in particular, the looming crisis of unsustainable ‘overtourism’. The aim of this paper is to disclose problems and policies related to moderating consumption to more sustainable levels. The scope of the article tackles three fields: urban re-branding, fast fashion, and overtourism. Each problem area is analysed against the background of digital surveillance in the attention economy with the aid of a conceptual model. Accordingly, the principal objectives of this paper are to analyse key sustainability problem sources, evolutionary processes, and policy responses. The paper’s originality and value lie in its recognition of tractable problem engagement through conceptual and practicable methods. This contribution also explores other consumption modes that tourists appreciate, namely, retail activity and its unsustainable “fast fashion” obsession. Finally, the paper analyses urban soft branding, the third tourism attractor within the niche touristic activity of the creative-cultural and gastronomic kind, which also features impulses that affect the perpetuation of unsustainable touristic practices. Thus, this contribution also assesses various studies on tourism futures that exploit digital media to assist in conserving both natural and cultural environments. Accordingly, we first narrate the soft re-branding of an “Art City” as a “Fashion City” and consider the example of green-digital innovation in the cultural milieu of Florence, Italy, in light of criticism of the unsustainability of “fast fashion”. We consider which actions are envisioned or advised in the similarly “over-touristed” city of Venice. In a different vein, we consider whether the mobilisation of ‘pop celebrity’ performers such as audience engagers or influencers works for sustainable intervention through an assessment of the cultural interventions of Madonna in Lisbon. Finally, we anatomise “green” politics and policies for creative-cultural cities with the support of digital media to influence sustainable actions to moderate or, alternatively, revitalise polluted, congested, or otherwise over-touristed city centres. The greening of central Paris, Barcelona, Milan, and London offer a a series of examples of this type of moderation and revitalisation.

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“…They thus habitually created urban 'media events' on Instagram to counter the feared 'nonentities' brand. As a casebook exemplar, [4] took 'Denver as an ideal case to study because of its banality-its exceptional unexceptionalism'. Part of its strategy to build urban identity beyond its regenerated downtown 'cultural' historic district of Larimer Square and further attract international tourists, Denver thus had three of its new CBD cultural schemes constructed by starchitects; Daniel Libeskind for the Denver Art Museum, Michael Graves for the Central Public Library, and the Museum of Contemporary Art designed by Ghanaian star David Adjaye, responsible for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC, amongst others.…”

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Future Shift for ‘Big Things’: From Starchitecture via Agritecture to Parkitecture

Cooke

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This article analyses three recent shifts in what called the geography of ‘Big Things’, meaning the contemporary functions and adaptability of modern city centre architecture. We periodise the three styles conventionally into the fashionable ‘Starchitecture’ of the 1990s, the repurposed ‘Agritecture’ of the 2000s and the parodising ‘Parkitecture’ of the 2010s. Starchitecture was the form of new architecture coinciding with the rise of neo-liberalism in its brief era of global urban competitiveness prevalent in the 1990s. After the Great Financial Crash of 2007–2008, the market for high-rise emblems of iconic, thrusting, skyscrapers and giant downtown and suburban shopping malls waned and online shopping and working from home destroyed the main rental values of the CBD. In some illustrious cases, ‘Agritecture’ caused re-purposed office blocks and other CBD accompaniments to be re-purposed as settings for high-rise urban farming, especially aquaponics and hydroponic horticulture. Now, COVID-19 has further undermined traditional CBD property markets, causing some administrations to decide to bulldoze their ‘deadmalls’ and replace them with urban prairie landscapes, inviting the designation ‘Parkitecture’ for the bucolic results. This paper presents an account of these transitions with reference to questions raised by urban cultural scholars such as Jane M. Jacobs and Jean Gottmann to figure out answers in time and space to questions their work poses.

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A constellation of stars: what a local newspaper talks about when it talks about star architecture

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Star architecture and urban transformation: introduction to the special issue

Star architecture and urban transformation: introduction to the special issue

Open Innovation, Soft Branding and Green Influencers: Critiquing ‘Fast Fashion’ and ‘Overtourism’

Future Shift for ‘Big Things’: From Starchitecture via Agritecture to Parkitecture

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