Creative Placemaking: How, Why, Outcomes
Ann Markusen, Arts Economy Initiative, University of Minnesota
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Principal, Metris Arts Consulting
Cultural Planning in Madison, Wisconsin: Toward Authentic Participation Using GIS
Eleonora Redaelli is Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Cultural Mapping: Politics, Poetics, Policy
Daniel Silver, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
Measuring the Cultural Vitality of Scenes: the Music Scene in Chicago
Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago
Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing Contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin
Monika De Frantz, expert on politics and social space, and University of Chicago Endeavour Visiting Scholar
Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna’s cultural district Museumsquartier and the planned Humboldt Forum on Berlin’s Schlossplatz illustrate two of the most controversial sites of urban reconstruction in Central Eastern Europe since the 1990s.