Imagining the City as a Space for Cultural Policy
Imagining the City as a Space for Cultural Policy

Summary/Abstract: In the present world with fluid boundaries and spreading urbanity as dominating human condition, city gains a new status on the global stage as autonomous sustainable locus of economic, social and cultural development, therefore cultural policy agenda inevitably needs to take this into consideration. Simultaneously, more than ever before urban public space as the most eligible place for actions of common concern turns into arena of clash between private and public interests, on the one hand, and, on the other, a cross-point between official urban policy and increasing self-enlightened consciousness of the ‘urbanites’ as a process of critical public debate. From such point of view recent social developments on the territory of European cities contest the Habermasian diagnosis that in late modernity the critical discourse is non-public, while the public activities are non-critical. The public life of modern cities forms part of new cultural policy understood as a result of complex interplay between citizens and key actors of urban governance.

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