Suburbanomics: creativity and innovation at the edge.

MacDonald, Stuart

Abstract

The basis of this paper is that we have prioritised the city centre and its planning sometimes to the impoverishment of the suburbs or outlying areas, despite the fact that most of us live there. Away from the headline projects at the citys core with its appropriation of architecture to the experience economy and the interests of tourism and retail, there is evidence of creativity and innovation in outlying neighbourhoods, estates and suburbs. Using an expanded range of references from urbanism to service design, cultural studies and environmental writing, Glasgow is taken as a case in point because its large-scale post-industrial regeneration through the use of architecture to brand cultural festivals and centres, is perceived to have overshadowed interesting projects at the periphery. A number of case-studies from different suburban contexts are deployed to illuminate key developments, especially in relation to co-design and changes in consumption and to offer exemplars. These are used to indicate the need for more suburban studies “ for Suburbanomics.

Citation

MACDONALD, S. 2011. Suburbanomics: creativity and innovation at the edge. Presented at one of the Future development of suburbs lectures: international approaches, ideas and experiences combined with national knowledge, December 2011, Helsinki, Finland.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: Future development of suburbs lecture: international approaches, ideas and experiences combined with national knowledge
• Conference Location: Helsinki, Finland
• Start Date: Dec 1, 2011
• End Date: Dec 31, 2011
• Deposit Date: Aug 13, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 13, 2014
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1026