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Title: Cultural Planning in Oakland: An Experimental Exploration of the Black Arts Movement and Business District
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Tere are long-standing issues around race, culture, and representation in contemporary planning for heritage places within cities. Tis thesis critiques the implications of a spatially bound cultural and business district model for preserving and fostering increased Black Arts and enterprise, and identifes the criteria that need to be in place (or considered/included) for a cultural planning strategy to be successful in mitigating displacement and exclusion in support of post-industrial (Black) heritage places. Focused on the City of Oakland, where the Black Arts Movement and Business District was adopted just this year on January 19th 2016, this study ultimately argues for the embracing of a more nuanced, evidence-based methodology that gives voice to the self-identifed cultural features of targeted groups, and a departure from established, top-down cultural planning practice. An extensive literature review provides a history of Oakland’s Black arts communities, and pulls from many social-science felds, including urban theory, public policy, sociology, anthropology, race and gender, and tourism studies to provide evidence for this critique. An experimental qualitative methodology (cognitive mapping) further identifes signifcant concepts from semi-structured interviews that provide stepping stones for larger questions about the implications of cultural planning. Tis study concludes that the creative strategies are not a panacea for underperforming downtowns, and that heritage-based cultural planning strategies might actually harm or displace cultural expression among historically disenfranchised groups.
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Authors: McElvain,
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
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Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity
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