The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City

Hae, Laam

doi:10.4324/9780203122259

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“…Some of this has revealed a spread of nocturnal capitalism globally. While ‘night‐time economy studies’ has predominantly focused on experiences in Europe, the USA and Australia (Jayne et al ; Hae ; Jayne et al ; May ; Shaw ; Brands et al ; Gallan ), researchers have also shown the increased commercialisation of the night in a number of other urban contexts. Researchers in Singapore, for example, have traced how the emergent night‐time economy has intersected with gendered, racial and sexual identities (Tan ; Yeo and Heng ).…”

Section: Understanding the Night That Remainsmentioning

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Night as Fragmenting Frontier: Understanding the Night that Remains in an era of 24/7

Shaw

2015

Geography Compass

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Social scientists have previously understood the night through a frontier metaphor. This has pitched night as an empty or lightly inhabited space into which the urban, capitalist day has been expanding. The contemporary increase in nocturnal research has complicated this picture, showing an increasing multiplicity of complexly lived, structured and experienced nights across the globe. This paper looks to retrieve the concept of night as frontier by drawing on postcolonial theories to generate a more subtle conceptualisation of 'frontier', while also arguing that recent research reveals that this frontier is now fragmenting. By exploring research into a series of core themesartificial light at night and darkness; night-lives; and global nights -I then explore what such an understanding of night allows us to say about current research. As nocturnal social science continues to mature, a more critical eye will need to be paid to the complexity of shifting power relations and identities within this fragmenting nocturnal frontier.

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Section: Understanding the Night That Remainsmentioning

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Night as Fragmenting Frontier: Understanding the Night that Remains in an era of 24/7

Shaw

2015

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“…20 Thus, reimagining rights in the context of space as discussed by Valverde (or in Henri Lefebvre's work on the "right to the city" 21 ) would involve safeguarding spaces of use-value "against colonization by market rationality" 22 that is favored within many "culture"-and "creativity"-focussed regeneration projects, and even more notably in "gentrification projects with prominent urban scholars like Richard Florida and his 'Creative City' thesis encouraging the cultural turn in urban policies." 23 Further, a safeguarding of the usevalue in cultural spaces answers to the concerns expressed almost two decades ago in the UNESCO Action Plan on Cultural Policies for Development ("UNESCO Action Plan") in relation to the increasing interest of cities in the market-value of commodifiable elements of culture. 24 As Lia Gudaitis and Martin Bunch summarize in applying the UNESCO Action Plan to the context of Toronto's Cultural Facilities Database, the UNESCO Action Plan …”

Section: The Use-value Of Cultural Spaces and The Rights In And To Thmentioning

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“…15 Yet, Laam Hae notes a marked "disappearance of spaces for transgressive and alternative subcultures," such as live music venues and spaces for nighttime experiential production and consumption. 16 Hae goes on to argue that this "implies a serious decline of people's rights; that is, people's rights to appropriate urban space and participate in producing it for the purpose of use-value, play, diverse social interactions, alternative community-building and the radical re-imagining of urban society."…”

Section: The Use-value Of Cultural Spaces and The Rights In And To Thmentioning

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Preserving Canadian Music Culture: The Case of the Silver Dollar Room and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Management of Urban Spaces of Culture

Ross¹

2016

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On January 13, 2015, one of Toronto, Canada’s, iconic live music venues, the Silver Dollar Room, officially received cultural heritage designation pursuant to the City of Toronto By-law 57-2015 under Part IV, Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act (“OHA”). What is significant about this designation, is that it was awarded, not on the basis of its physical or tangible heritage attributes but, instead, on the intangible cultural heritage value embodied within the space. Receiving cultural heritage designation is important for the future of the Silver Dollar Room as it has effectively led to the end of plans for its demolition and redevelopment that have been on the table since June 2013. By subjecting the redevelopment approval process to the greater scrutiny required due to cultural heritage designation, the interests of private developers have been better balanced with the artistic and cultural value of the Silver Dollar Room and the associated interests of the live music community culture linked to the space. This paper will examine these issues through the specific example of Toronto, but the implications of this study are applicable to the many rapidly developing cities around the world.

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“…With subjects including but not at all limited to Black ballroom culture in Detroit (Bailey 2013), the lesbian drag king scene in Sydney (Drysdale 2019), the burgeoning gay rave scene of 1990s New York (Buckland 2002), a memorialization of North American and London gay bars (Atherton Lin 2021), the worldmaking aesthetics of club fashion (moore 2018), queer-of-color house music culture in Chicago (Salkind 2019), and a collection of essays on Queer Nightlife (Adeyemi et al 2021), the attentive criticality of a thriving global scholarship reflects the centrifugal cultural force of nightlife throughout the queer imaginary, as well as within queer people's everyday lives. These clandestine locales are characterized ambivalently, functioning as spaces of "foundational vitality [...] of creativity, diverse expressive cultures and counter-cultural transgression of established societal norms" (Hae 2012:3), while also acting as "sites of alienation that are circumscribed by normative modes of exclusion" (Adeyemi et al 2021:2).…”

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