Creative Margins : : Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs / / Alison L. Bain.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bain, Alison L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 26 photos, 7 figures, 10 maps

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation of culture in suburbs, focusing on Etobicoke and Mississauga outside Toronto, and Surrey and North Vancouver outside Vancouver. The book investigates whether the creative process unfolds differently for suburban and urban cultural workers, as well as how this process is affected by the presence or absence of cultural infrastructure and planning initiatives.Bain shows how suburban culture can enhance a city-region's vitality and sustainability. This book firmly debunks the myth of culture as a solely urban phenomenon and demonstrates the social and economic merits of investing in suburban art and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Introduction: Creating from the Margins -- Chapter Two. The Geography of Somewhere: The Suburbs -- Chapter Three. (Un)usual Suburbanites? Explorations and Interventions at the Cultural Frontier -- Chapter Four. Why (Not) Here? Valuing the Intermediate Landscape -- Chapter Five. Suburban Cultural Infrastructure Planning Formulas: From District to Multiplex -- Chapter Six. The Creative Art of Place Complexity in Suburbia -- Chapter Seven. Networked Geographies of Suburban Cultural Workers -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: Culture from the Outside In -- Appendix: The Arbour Lake Sghool -- Notes -- References -- Index