Description:
This book interrogates and questions the meaning and implications of suburban creativity.
Brief description:
Ruth McManus is an associate professor of geography and associate dean for teaching and learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University.
Review Quotes:
"This marvellous collection not only explodes the myth of suburban conformity but also makes us question what creativity means in the context of the 'creative city.' It is required reading for anyone interested in the past and future of the modern city."
--Simon Gunn, Emeritus Professor of Urban History, University of Leicester"This collection effectively challenges assumptions underpinning the denigration of suburbs as cultural wastelands. Spacious, affordable, connected, and closer to nature, the suburbs of Antwerp, Brussels, Helsinki, Dublin, Budapest, London, Melbourne, Los Angeles, and Toronto offer grounded examples of home-based decoration, artistic activity, collecting, and innovative digital, architectural, and garden design. Detailing the suburban milieux of different times and places moves them from 'nowheres' to somewheres of creative endeavour."
--Louise Johnson, Honorary Professor, Deakin University and University of Melbourne, and author of Cultural Capitals: Revaluing the Arts, Remaking Urban Spaces