The Prospects for Progressive Culture‐Led Urban Regeneration in Latin America: Cases from Mexico City and Buenos Aires

Kanai, Juan Miguel; Ortega-Alcázar, Iliana

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00865.x

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“…Los análisis realizados en otras ciudades latinoamericanas como Buenos Aires (Herzer, 2008;Kanai & Ortega Alcázar, 2009;Lacarrieu et al, 2011), Recife (Nery & Moura de Castillo, 2008), Quito (Carrión, 2010), Salvador de Bahía (Nobre, 2002;Ormindo de Azevedo, 2009) y Montevideo (Schelotto, 2007), Cuenca y Cusco (Steel & Klaufus, 2010), permiten establecer que los procesos de gentrificación simbólica en Latinoamérica han sido generados por alianzas público-privadas que impulsan proyectos de recuperación de zonas patrimoniales, buscando mejorar la imagen urbana de estas zonas a fin de activar espacios atractivos para la inversión privada, el turismo y los comercios ligados a sectores económicos emergentes. Los enfoques de estos estudios han estado signados por las transformaciones de los usos de los inmuebles, la revalorización de las zonas patrimoniales y la atracción de inversión privada (Jones & Varley, 1994;Salinas, 2013).…”

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Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: ¿hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile?

Vergara-Constela

Casellas

2016

EURE (Santiago)

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issn impreso 0250-7161 | issn digital vol 42 | n o 126 | mayo 2016 | pp. 123-144 | artículos | ©EURE Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: ¿hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile?Carlos Vergara-Constela. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, España. Antònia Casellas. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, España.resumen | A través de un enfoque metodológico mixto, el presente estudio analiza la transformación de la ciudad de Valparaíso (Chile) a partir de la década de 2000, vinculando las características del proceso y los agentes y políticas de renovación urbana, con los efectos en la morfología urbana resultantes de la denominación patrimonial Unesco. El análisis permite identificar al Estado chileno como agente clave en la renovación urbana a través de su papel de liderazgo en la promoción patrimonial, el turismo y la ampliación del mercado universitario. Estas estrategias de crecimiento apuntan a un emergente proceso de gentrificación.

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Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: ¿hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile?

Vergara-Constela

Casellas

2016

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“…Specifically this paper will add a critical perspective to projects for urban regeneration through culture in Buenos Aires, a city largely overlooked in the international academic debates, with some exceptions (Arrese, 2003;Carman, 2006;Dinardi, 2012;Kanai & Ortega-Alcázar, 2009;Lacarrieu and Alvarez, 2008;Welch, 2005;Zunino Singh, 2007). In Latin America, the rhetorical importance given to cultural policy discourses for urban development has not been accompanied by systematic academic approaches that analyse these policies (Rubim & Bayardo, 2008).…”

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Unsettling the role of culture as panacea: The politics of culture-led urban regeneration in Buenos Aires

Dinardi

2015

City, Culture and Society

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A B S T R A C TIn recent years the rise of culture as a universal cure to a myriad of urban, social and economic 'diseases' has been celebrated without precedent, both in policy and academic accounts. Unlike these celebratory discourses, this paper provides a critique of the politics underpinning culture-led urban regeneration in order to unsettle the role of culture as panacea. Drawing on a case study -the on-going redevelopment of the post office palace into a commemorative cultural centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina -the analysis offers an in-depth account of the policy process by which industrial heritage is redeveloped through a cultural rhetoric. The analysis reveals how the recycling of the post office building enabled multiple meanings of culture to emerge and circulate within a range of policy, architectural, urban regeneration, real estate and media discourses. These, in turn, express existing disputes over the making of cultural policies, the uses of heritage, the image of the capital city and the value of the post office. In the redevelopment of the postal building, the paper argues, policy invocations of culture were aimed at de-politicising cultural activities in post-2001/2002 crisis Argentina, when politics had become a synonym of corruption and mismanagement. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the urgent need to adopt a critical perspective to the study of culture-led urban regeneration in Latin America, one which situates the analysis in historical and political terms and acknowledges the contending circumstances out of which these urban strategies often emerge.

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“…First, while many of Buenos Aires' marketing strategies resemble those of cities elsewhere in the global North, the analysis revealed a particular entanglement between politics, businesses and urban marketing, which needs to be understood as part of the broader urban cultural governance in Latin America that emerges in the context of unstable, contingent and contradictory processes involving both democratisation and neoliberalisation (Kanai and Ortega-Alca´ zar, 2009). Apart from unpacking what 'culture' might mean in the political economy of neoliberalism (Da´ vila, 2014), which makes it an instrument of marketisation, we need to render the city brand political, by focusing on its social uses, appropriation and contestation, if we are to understand how urban marketing works in the Latin American city.…”

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“…Such policies have been implemented through the activities of the Design Metropolitan Centre (CMD), a governmental body created in 2001 to support small and medium sized businesses in the field of design, which under the Macri's administration passed from being under the Culture Secretary remit to depend on the Economic Development Ministry, making explicit a view of creativity as an economic resource (for a review of the CMD, see Kanai and Ortega-Alca´ zar, 2009). A landmark of this administration has been the organisation of creativity into urban clusters, the so-called polos or distritos creativos.…”

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Cities for sale: Contesting city branding and cultural policies in Buenos Aires

Dinardi

2016

Urban Studies

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This paper examines the role of culture in shaping and contesting city branding strategies. Throughout the world, the private and public sectors are jointly engaged in branding cities by mobilising a cultural rhetoric with the aim of attracting business, boosting tourism and revitalising urban spaces. Adopting a critical sociological perspective, the paper examines whether or not culture-based city branding brings benefits to community cultural organisations and explores the reasons why this might be the case. Based on the experience of Buenos Aires and drawing on indepth interviews with both policy-makers and community cultural centres, different notions of culture, underpinning contrasting imagined cities, are discussed. The paper argues that city branding, founded on a commodified notion of culture, driven by profit-making goals and oriented towards international tourism, can create an urban vision of consumption to which cultural organisations are opposed. The paper concludes by showing how a particular entanglement between politics, businesses and urban marketing in the Latin American city gives way to ongoing contestations over the city brand and configures the possibilities and distribution of potential benefits.

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The Prospects for Progressive Culture‐Led Urban Regeneration in Latin America: Cases from Mexico City and Buenos Aires

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Cited by 71 publications

References 37 publications

Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: ¿hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile?

Políticas estatales y transformación urbana: ¿hacia un proceso de gentrificación en Valparaíso, Chile?

Unsettling the role of culture as panacea: The politics of culture-led urban regeneration in Buenos Aires

Cities for sale: Contesting city branding and cultural policies in Buenos Aires

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