MARTHA ROSLER CULTURE CLASS

What makes a city successful today? Over the past few decades, artistsand more broadly, clusters of creative peoplehave become cen tral to narratives of urban revitalization and civic growth in cities around the world.In many locales, artists in search of cheap r ent constitute the vanguard wedge of gentrification. Yet the so-called creative class includes whole categories of knowledge workers enjoying far less precarious conditions than artists, and it is their affluence that continually displaces both working-class resid ents and a...[Llegir més]