The Impacts of Culture-led Flagship Projects on Local Communities in the Context of Post-socialist Tallinn

• Authors: Ingmar Pastak , Anneli Kährik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe, the effects of urban culture-led flagship projects on the quality of life of local neighbourhood communities have only received marginal attention, while the overriding focus has been on promoting economic growth and internationalisation. The aim of the article is to identify the community impacts of culture-led regeneration projects carried out in the inner city of Tallinn in the past decade. Qualitative analysis of three inner-city flagship projects—creative campus, museum, and cultural hub—revealed that culture-led regeneration projects, whether public or private initiatives, are regarded as standard business models. In terms of their influence on local communities, the projects vary depending on their focus, the degree of engagement of local groups in the planning phase and activities, and the extent of actual physical change. However, in cases where local groups have been engaged, the engagement has been selective and has primarily involved the creative class. Local residents nevertheless perceive that the projects have led to overall positive changes in physical neighbourhood characteristics.

Keywords

EN

culture-led urban regeneration; flagship projects; local communities; creative class; post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 963-990
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ingmar Pastak

• Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Box 514, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden,

author

Anneli Kährik

• Department of Geography, Institute for Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 46 Vanemuise St., 51014 Tartu, Estonia,

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/00380288.2016.52.6.292