Creative margins

By Alison L. Bain

Subjects: Cultural policy, Culture populaire, Sociologie urbaine, Case studies, Artistes, Canada, social conditions, Arts, Art et société, Popular culture, Politique culturelle, Banlieues, Arts and society, Urban Sociology, Suburbs, Aspect économique, Études de cas, Artists

Description: "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.