The positive and negative effects of culture-led urban regeneration have been at the center of the international debate for quite a long time now. On the contrary, the potentially unwanted impact that the success in regeneration could have over cultural policy making has not been discussed yet, nor have its possible remedies in these lean economic times. This manuscript describes and comments original problems and tentative solutions in an Italian case study. Due to a dramatic change in the production base and to the opportunities and resources provided by a significant season of urban redevelopment projects, seven medium-size Municipalities in the Northern Milanese subregion have started to come to terms with common problems of oversupply and potential redundancy in the local cultural services and the arts. The problem was faced by trying to assemble, rescale and reprogram part of the governance network in the cultural service provision, in artistic and creative production, and more generally in the local economy. The paper suggests that a number of managerial problems emerging at the metropolitan level in cultural policy making can be better understood if connected to urban development processes and the related economic interests.
Cultural policy making in the face of urban regeneration: The case of the Northern Milanese subregion
PONZINI, DAVIDE
2010-01-01
Abstract
The positive and negative effects of culture-led urban regeneration have been at the center of the international debate for quite a long time now. On the contrary, the potentially unwanted impact that the success in regeneration could have over cultural policy making has not been discussed yet, nor have its possible remedies in these lean economic times. This manuscript describes and comments original problems and tentative solutions in an Italian case study. Due to a dramatic change in the production base and to the opportunities and resources provided by a significant season of urban redevelopment projects, seven medium-size Municipalities in the Northern Milanese subregion have started to come to terms with common problems of oversupply and potential redundancy in the local cultural services and the arts. The problem was faced by trying to assemble, rescale and reprogram part of the governance network in the cultural service provision, in artistic and creative production, and more generally in the local economy. The paper suggests that a number of managerial problems emerging at the metropolitan level in cultural policy making can be better understood if connected to urban development processes and the related economic interests.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
