International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, Miles's innovative book looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework.
A critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce (and which in turn shape them) this book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies
Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? This book contributes to the debate by looking back to past avant-gardes and by profiling contemporary cases of radical cultural practices.