Star Architecture’s Interplays and Effects on Cities

Thierstein, Alain; Alaily-Mattar, Nadia; Dreher, Johannes

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23925-1_4

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“…Which is to say architecture, at its most prestigious levels, is a work of rhetorical force as well as building design. Thierstein et al (2020) goes further, positing that the economic, socio-cultural, and morphological effects of star architecture are the result of a heterogenous actor network that includes media, experiences, and competition alongside implantation of building design. If this is the case, then the city authentic is star architecture without a star.…”

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The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers

Banks

2021

European Planning Studies

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Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. Familiar social media platforms aggregate users' tastes and reconstitute them as advertising and curated content. In this paper, I show that American cities are induced by state governments to adopt the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers. This is particularly evident in cultural planning as it relates to economic development. While this is a global phenomenon, I have chosen to focus on the Capital Region of New York State, a region approximately 240 kilometres north of New York City. I have chosen the Capital Region because New York's nine-year-old system of Regional Economic Development Councils highlights the competitive and often capricious environment that urbanists increasingly find themselves in. Through an analysis of planning documents, reported events and secondary sources I demonstrate how small to medium cities in Upstate New York are competing to be the purveyors of authentic urban living. I then discuss how authenticity and social media interact to create desires for consumption of identity performance. Finally, I compare the city authentic branding regime with the 'Bilbao effect' and show how the former can summon the effects of the latter without a 'star' architect.

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confidence: 99%

The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers

Banks

2021

European Planning Studies

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“…Here effects can occur potentially in very different fields, such as the urban structure, the economic prosperity of a city, the self-perception of the city's inhabitants, etcetera. Analysing such phenomena, sociologists argue that it is structurally impossible to know all the influencing causes – the so-called chains of causes and effects” (Thierstein et al ., 2020, p. 47). To address the concerns, this paper uses the concept of impact to expand the consideration of effects beyond the confines of strictly linear causalities, where impact is defined as a multi-scalar, multidimensional process (Thierstein et al ., 2020).…”

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“…Within this context, concepts and tools from the economic sciences were adapted to the needs of this research. Economic impact analysis organises the causal links between a combination of resources called inputs and activities taken, generate production goals as outputs (Thierstein et al ., 2020, p. 48), outcomes (direct effects) and long-term effects as the basic categories of the logic model. This model uses these categories, but considers the difficulty of isolating causality and the systemic nature of causal relationships.…”

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Unpacking the effects of star architecture projects

Alaily-Mattar

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Dreher

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PurposeTo explain the process of how star architecture projects generate impact, one must first describe the outputs of such projects and then unpack the wide array of potential effects, which are generated by these outputs. This requires the application of multi-disciplinary research perspectives. Only then can one begin to systematically analyse the long-term impacts. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the complexity of such multi-disciplinary research exercise can be managed through the application of a methodological strategy aided by a conceptual impact model.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual impact model is presented, which describes the process of the development of star architecture projects, the various outputs of these projects and the possible effects generated by these outputs. The effects of three case study star architecture projects are discussed.FindingsEmpirical research findings indicate that while the isolation of effects serves the operationalisation of research, the investigation of the impact of star architecture projects on their respective cities must draw on the intertwinement of the fields of urban economy, society and morphology. The paper concludes by arguing for the application of the described methodological strategy as the basis for understanding in which dimensions a star architecture project generates impacts.Practical implicationsThe potential of the proposed impact model for urban analysis when considered as a field of intertwined relations is demonstrated in this article. It helps to reveal how particular local developments change the city significantly in socio-cultural and spatial terms.Originality/valueThe transformative impact of star architecture projects and the role of economic and other effects in this process has hardly been studied, particularly in small and medium-sized cities. This article presents a unique multi-disciplinary research project approached consecutively in the aforementioned fields.

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“…Expectations (which can be explored by the means of other concepts and terms, such as suppositions, forecasts) have been variously considered in the literature on urban planning and architecture. For example, Thierstein, Alaily-Mattar, and Dreher (2020) propose a conceptual model, made up of four blocks, to analyse the effects and impacts of star architectures: the first block, named 'starting conditions', includes the perception of unsatisfactory urban performances (real or not), while the second, 'activities', implies the formulation of ambitions and intentions. The expectations mobilized in this paper lie in the interplay between the two blocks: they are heterogeneous, and in many cases implicit, emotional and not-fully conscious sets of ideas and imaginaries about the effects of an architecture, in this case PalaFuksas, and its performance as a cultural artefact, object of value, sign and spatial system (cf.…”

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Shops, food, regeneration and a controversial signature building in Turin, Italy

Vanolo

2021

European Planning Studies

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The paper focuses on the case of PalaFuksas, a signature building inaugurated in 2005 and located in the central (but marginalized) area of Porta Palazzo in Turin, Italy. Originally designed to host clothing shops, the building had a history of failures and reconversions, and it is currently mainly used as a branded food hall. By mixing archive and qualitative research, the article focuses on the evolution amongst local stakeholders, of different 'expectations', intended as heterogeneous and not fully conscious and rational sets of ideas, imaginaries, forecasts. PalaFuksas was expected to be a successful and functional building to contain businesses, a flagship for the entire city, and to perform distinction and iconicity, acting as a regenerator for its neighbourhood. Failures in meeting these expectations implied a continuous renegotiation of the meanings, functions and identities of PalaFuksas, revealing the complexity of the processes at play in the attempt to sign, re-sign and ultimately 'become' a signature building.

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Star Architecture’s Interplays and Effects on Cities

Cited by 9 publications

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The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers

The attention economy of authentic cities: how cities behave like influencers

Unpacking the effects of star architecture projects

Shops, food, regeneration and a controversial signature building in Turin, Italy

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