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Late 20th century has marked the advent of a new metropolitan age: cities’
capacity, especially Western cities’ can do spirit to reinvent themselves in an era
of de-industrialization and worlwide fierce competition. Globalization and the
weakening of the nation-state have paved the way for the centrality of cities as
nodes of spatial and political dynamics, stretching from their cultural influence
to their effectiveness in developing trade routes, investments and all sorts of
power relations.
In this context, the convergence between the spheres of cultural and economic
development leads us to think of culture, in Raymond Williams’s words, as “a
whole way of life”, a form of lived experience or complex reality of a place, whose
dynamics may have impact at a local level (national inter-urban competition) or
at a supranational level (setting a global ideological agenda, or, “a politics of
place beyond place” to follow Dorey Massey’s argument).
Bearing this background in mind, the focus for a more detailed analysis will be
put on the renewal of London as a world city, namely from the 1980s onwards.
Tracing some of the milestones of London’s reinvention as a world city means
looking into a plethora of forces: Thatcherite neoliberal policies, New Labour
enterprising culture, the pivotal role of the City, the heart of London’s financial
services, the lure of London as a place of opportunities and the creativity
dispositif as a form of governmentality, amongst other related issues.
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London Culture
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SIMÕES-FERREIRA, Isabel - Competing for keeping a global status: London as a world actor. In: International Conference the street and the city: awakenings,”, Lisbon/Estoril, (School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon/ Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies), 2016 (14-15 april)