Festivals and the City
Osborn, Guy / Quinn, Bernadette / Smith, Andrew![Festivals and the City](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/406/40625283/CHSBZCOP0340625283.jpg)
This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The 'festivalisation' of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces as contested spaces. The book focuses on Western European cities, a particularly interesting c...