Culture and Sustainability in European Cities

Svetlana Hristova is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts in the South-West University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, and Chair of the ENCATC Thematic Area "Urban Management and Cultural Policies of City." Milena Dragićević Šešić is Head of UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation, and Professor of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies at the University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. Nancy Duxbury is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Co-Coordinator of its Cities, Cultures and Architecture Research Group. She is also Adjunct Professor of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Foreward / Series Introduction Introduction Part 1: Culture and Sustainable Development of European Cities - What are the Issues? 1. Cultural Sustainability in Small and Medium-sized Cities: What Are the Issues? 2. Civic Urbanity: Looking at the City Afresh 3. We, European Cities and Towns: The Role of Culture for the Evolving European Model of Urban Sustainability 4. Culture, Quality of Life and Sustainable Urban Development Part 2: Europolis as a Project - Envisioning More Sustainable Cities 5. European Cities as Cultural Projects: Where is Culture in Urban Sustainability Policy? 6. Culture in development strategies of small and medium-sized European cities: A comparative analysis 7. Cultural Policy-making by Networking: Local Cooperation and Global Competition in Small and Medium-sized Italian Cities 8. European Capitals of Culture and urban diplomacy Part 3: Culture for Sustainable Development in Urban Policies and Practicies 9. A place in the city: Recognizing creative inclusion 10. Cultural access and activation: Civic participation in local sustainable communities 11. Provincial Poland: Sustainable development and culture in small and medium-sized towns 12. Culture, sustainable development, and innovation: The case of Norrby, Sweden 13. The town is the venue: "Place-making" at the heart of cultural policy Part 4: Making the city resilient: Building Communities through artivism 14. Mobilizing urban neighbourhoods: Artivism, identity, and cultural sustainability 15. Land, people, and art: An attempt to renew social identity in the Czech Republic 16. Strumica, the city I want to live in! 17. Artistic/design practices, art education, and sustainable development: A question of design or of mutual transition?