Abstract

Around the world, cities have experienced intense suburbanization. Demographic growth and urban restructuring have rapidly transformed the form and use of suburbs, producing places of great structural and cultural complexity. Urban cultural policy and planning have yet to adequately engage with this complexity. This chapter argues that when policymakers operate within a paradigm of prescriptive creative urban policy, socio-spatial inequities between city and suburb are accentuated, encouraging the neglect and constraint of suburban cultural production.