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Culture, consumption, and the aesthetic homogenization of independent coffee shops in the United States and Canada 美国和加拿大独立咖啡店的文化、消费和美学同质化

Q1 Social Sciences

City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2026.100692

Kelly Gregg , Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker , Conrad Kickert , Ian Trivers

Independent coffee shops are often associated with local community culture and authenticity. Yet these shops often seem to contain highly similar aesthetic elements, which aim to appeal to a specific clientele. This research probes the interior design aesthetics of independent, so-called ‘third wave’ coffee shops in the United States and Canada, questioning how unique they actually are, and whether their repeated use and homogenization may make these coffee shops less uniquely identifiable and locally rooted. Based on the results of two online surveys, we demonstrate that the majority of third-wave coffee shops presents a homogeneous and narrow range of aesthetic elements in their interior design, which make them hard to distinguish and to localize. These choices in effect become a de facto brand that is not necessarily reflective of the local culture or geography, but rather of the expectations and aspirations of their consumers. This commodification of aesthetics may counteract the original and oft-advertised mission of third-wave coffee shops to be unique, local, and authentic.

独立咖啡店通常与当地社区文化和真实性联系在一起。然而，这些商店似乎往往包含高度相似的美学元素，旨在吸引特定的客户。本研究探讨了美国和加拿大独立咖啡店的室内设计美学，即所谓的“第三波”咖啡店，质疑它们实际上有多独特，以及它们的重复使用和同质化是否会使这些咖啡店失去独特的可识别性和本地根源。根据两项在线调查的结果，我们发现大多数第三波咖啡店在室内设计中呈现出同质化和狭窄的美学元素范围，这使得它们难以区分和本地化。这些选择实际上成为了一个事实上的品牌，它不一定反映当地文化或地理，而是反映了消费者的期望和愿望。这种美学的商品化可能会抵消第三波咖啡店最初和经常宣传的使命，即独特、本地和真实。

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Leveraging global production networks for local economic development: Insights from the fashion industry in Bilbao's creative and cultural sectors 利用全球生产网络促进当地经济发展：来自毕尔巴鄂创意和文化部门时尚产业的见解

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2026.100693

Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway , Marc Pradel i Miquel

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Cultural policy and urban cultural infrastructure beyond the creative city 创意城市之外的文化政策与城市文化基础设施

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2026.100689

Abigail Gilmore , Dr Lauren England , Thuy Tran Dr , Dr Claire Burnill-Maier

This special issue showcases interdisciplinary research on the changing conditions, policies and practices of urban cultural infrastructure, offering new insights into the relationship between art, culture, policy and urban development. The collection of research articles offers empirical consideration and theoretical reflection on what might be considered an ‘infrastructural turn’ within urban and cultural policy studies that challenges previously established ideal types of urban strategies which target cultural consumption and production for value extraction. Together, they represent an attempt to move beyond the ‘creative city’ strategies that dominate this area of research but offer only vague and sometimes contradictory narratives. We aim to offer a basis for alternative discussions that are inclusive and critically sensitive to the divergence of spatial, political and economic contexts and practices within governance, statecraft and urban entrepreneurialism, to explore opportunities offered through heterodox approaches which capture the multiple narratives of urban development across global North and South.

这期特刊展示了关于城市文化基础设施变化的条件、政策和实践的跨学科研究，为艺术、文化、政策和城市发展之间的关系提供了新的见解。研究文章的集合提供了对城市和文化政策研究中可能被认为是“基础设施转向”的经验考虑和理论反思，挑战了先前建立的以文化消费和生产为目标的价值提取的理想类型的城市战略。总之，它们代表了一种尝试，超越了主导这一研究领域的“创意城市”策略，但只提供了模糊的、有时是相互矛盾的叙述。我们的目标是为其他讨论提供一个基础，这些讨论对空间、政治和经济背景以及治理、治国方术和城市创业精神中的实践差异具有包容性和批判性的敏感性，以探索通过非正统方法提供的机会，这些方法捕捉了全球南北城市发展的多种叙事。

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The ambient office: Remote work and the post-digital downtown 环境办公室：远程工作和后数字化的市中心

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100673

Erika Polson

In many United States cities, a rise in remote work is blamed for an ‘office apocalypse,’ with dire news reports claiming downtown districts are in a ‘death spiral.’ As a reaction to the normalization of digitalized remote work, many cities are responding to the spatial consequences of digital mobilities by trying to make themselves more attractive to new publics. Although this includes plans to convert offices to apartments, for the most part planners continue to view the office as a fixed location that will become more attractive if people live near it. This paper suggests cities should recognize how knowledge workers touristify the workday, seeking to blend work and leisure across urban space. Based on reviews of scholarship and market reports about central office districts and remote work, theories of branding and atmospheres, and a ‘scenario’ developed through interviews with planners from multiple cities alongside observations of remote work in Denver, Colorado, the article suggests the office maintains a significant role in downtowns in its post-digital—its ambient—form.

在美国许多城市，远程办公的兴起被认为是“办公室末日”的罪魁祸首，可怕的新闻报道称，市中心地区正处于“死亡螺旋”之中。“作为对数字化远程工作常态化的回应，许多城市正试图通过提高自身对新公众的吸引力来应对数字化移动带来的空间后果。”虽然这包括将办公室改造成公寓的计划，但在大多数情况下，规划者仍将办公室视为一个固定的地点，如果人们住在附近，它将变得更有吸引力。本文建议城市应该认识到知识工作者如何旅游工作日，寻求在城市空间中融合工作和休闲。基于对中央办公区和远程办公的学术研究和市场报告、品牌和氛围理论的回顾，以及通过对多个城市的规划者的采访和对科罗拉多州丹佛市远程工作的观察得出的“情景”，这篇文章表明，在后数字化时代，办公室在市中心保持着重要的作用。

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Intermediating policy affordances in creative clusters: the Boost initiative 创意集群的中介政策支持：Boost倡议

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2026.100695

Kate Pullinger , Stacey Pottinger , Tarek E. Virani

Since 2012 UK policy surrounding regional development has increasingly prioritised the development of creative clusters to support and bolster the country's creative economy. The Creative Industries Clusters Programme (CICP) is one such example of the current models of support being enacted through this policy and is mainly delivered by universities who act as intermediaries between the creative sector and government. The primary mechanism of support involves micro-funding initiatives aimed at supporting creative small, micro and medium-sized enterprises (SMME) within a given, usually medium to short, timeframe. However, as the sector is largely composed of micro-enterprises and freelancers, ongoing instability due to these types of funding cycles often leave organisations vulnerable once support ends resulting in a need to either ameliorate the impacts of these types of policies or holistically rethink these types of policy models. This paper examines the BSU Boost initiative (formerly Counting House), developed at Bath Spa University (BSU), as a case study of a ‘policy instrument affordance’ within the UK's creative cluster policy environment. Drawing on Hellström and Jacob's (2017) theoretical framework of policy instrument affordances, this paper argues that Boost operates as an intermediary mechanism that bridges critical gaps in public funding cycles. It offers new possibilities—or affordances—for creative micro-enterprises by enabling them to access grants that would otherwise be out of reach due to pre-financing requirements. Through a reflexive case study methodology, the paper details how these affordances do not emerge from the policy instrument alone but rely on active intermediation by the university. Acting as an intermediary, BSU translates complex policy into practical support through Boost, but faces challenges like administrative friction and sustainability concerns. This case highlights the importance—and limitations—of university-led intermediation in making policy affordances real for creative clusters. Accordingly, this initiative serves as an illustrative case of alternative mechanisms for addressing the limitations inherent in short-to medium-term policy frameworks designed to support creative clusters.

自2012年以来，英国围绕区域发展的政策越来越优先考虑创意集群的发展，以支持和巩固该国的创意经济。创意产业集群计划（CICP）就是目前通过该政策制定的支持模式的一个例子，主要由大学提供，这些大学充当创意部门和政府之间的中介。支助的主要机制涉及旨在在特定的通常是中短期的时间框架内支助创造性的小型、微型和中型企业的微型供资倡议。然而，由于该部门主要由微型企业和自由职业者组成，由于这些类型的资金周期导致的持续不稳定往往使组织在支持结束后变得脆弱，从而需要改善这些类型政策的影响或从整体上重新考虑这些类型的政策模式。本文考察了巴斯斯帕大学（BSU）开发的BSU Boost倡议（前身为计数室），作为英国创意集群政策环境中“政策工具提供”的案例研究。利用Hellström和Jacob（2017）的政策工具负担理论框架，本文认为Boost作为一种中介机制，可以弥合公共资金周期中的关键缺口。它为创造性微型企业提供了新的可能性或负担能力，使它们能够获得赠款，否则由于预先融资要求而无法获得赠款。通过反思性案例研究方法，本文详细说明了这些支持如何不仅仅来自政策工具，而是依赖于大学的积极中介。作为中介机构，BSU通过Boost将复杂的政策转化为实际支持，但面临行政摩擦和可持续性问题等挑战。这个案例突出了大学主导的中介在为创意集群制定政策支持方面的重要性和局限性。因此，这一倡议是解决旨在支持创意集群的中短期政策框架固有局限性的替代机制的一个说明性案例。

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Between local heritage and global aesthetics: Bourdieusian perspectives on Tehran's cafés 在地方遗产与全球美学之间：德黑兰咖啡馆的布尔迪厄主义观点

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2026.100688

Naimeh Rezaei , Emma Felton

This article explores the recent proliferation of cafés in central Tehran. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, and cultural capital, in dialogue with theories of glocalization and cultural hybridization, the study analyzes how these cafés function not merely as consumption venues but as hybrid cultural fields. Based on ethnographic fieldwork—including interviews, observations, and visual analysis of 18 cafés—the research reveals that these spaces enable middle- and upper-middle-class youth to perform social distinction through hybrid tastes and symbolic practices that blend local heritage with global aesthetics. While established in repurposed historic buildings, these cafés incorporate digital tools, cosmopolitan design, and layered sensory experiences, allowing patrons to express aspirational cosmopolitanism without rejecting Iranian cultural codes. The study contributes to the literature by extending Bourdieu's nationally grounded theory to global urban contexts, introducing the concept of glocal cultural capital, and theorizing cafés as key infrastructures of hybrid cultural production and symbolic urban change. Ultimately, it argues that trendy cafés in Tehran are not ideologically neutral spaces, but socially selective fields where modernity, refinement, and cultural belonging are continually negotiated.

这篇文章探讨了最近在德黑兰市中心咖啡馆的扩散。本研究借鉴皮埃尔·布迪厄的场域、惯习和文化资本的概念，结合全球本土化和文化杂交理论，分析了这些咖啡厅不仅作为消费场所，而且作为混合文化场域的功能。基于人种学的田野调查——包括访谈、观察和对18个cafims的视觉分析——研究表明，这些空间使中上层中产阶级的年轻人能够通过混合品味和象征性实践来表现社会地位，将当地遗产与全球美学相结合。这些咖啡馆建立在改造的历史建筑中，结合了数字工具、世界主义设计和分层的感官体验，让顾客在不拒绝伊朗文化规范的情况下表达理想的世界主义。本研究将布迪厄的国家基础理论扩展到全球城市语境，引入了全球地方文化资本的概念，并将咖啡作为混合文化生产和象征性城市变化的关键基础设施进行了理论化。最后，它认为德黑兰时髦的咖啡馆不是意识形态中立的空间，而是社会选择性的领域，在这里，现代性、精致性和文化归属不断得到协商。

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The touristification of work: Coworking spaces and digital nomads in Barcelona 工作的旅游化：巴塞罗那的联合办公空间和数字游牧民

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100687

José Ignacio Sánchez-Vergara , Marko Orel

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Transforming cultural urban regeneration: Roles of multiple stakeholders in Macau, China 转型文化都市再生：澳门多元利益相关者的角色

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2026.100690

Josephine Hio Ian Choi

This article examines Macau as a case study for the transformation of cultural urban regeneration. Macau's commitment to preserving its Portuguese colonial heritage aligns with a cultural policy supporting urban regeneration for economic diversification. Through interviews, observations, and literature reviews, the study addresses research questions regarding changing roles of stakeholders, evolution of governance, and influence of the governance system on the outcomes of regeneration projects. Two prime examples are explored: St Lazarus neighbourhood, which has retained its colonial architectural heritage, and Taipa Village, which has transitioned into a vibrant lifestyle district. These areas have transformed into creative hubs where arts and culture are central in driving urban regeneration.

本文以澳门为个案，探讨城市文化更新的转型。澳门致力于保存葡萄牙殖民时期的遗产，同时支持城市再生，促进经济多元化。通过访谈、观察和文献综述，本研究解决了利益相关者角色的变化、治理的演变以及治理系统对再生项目结果的影响等研究问题。两个主要的例子是：St Lazarus社区保留了其殖民时期的建筑遗产，氹仔村已经转变为一个充满活力的生活方式区。这些地区已经转变为创意中心，艺术和文化是推动城市再生的核心。

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Neo-artisans ‘Out of Town’: Motivations and contradictions in non-urban neo-craft work 新工匠“出城”：非城市新工艺作品的动机与矛盾

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100686

Marta Tonetta, Alessandro Gandini

Calls to ‘disconnect from work’ have become increasingly prominent in recent years. Within this framework, neo-craft occupations emerged as an attractive option for workers in search of meaningful work. While these have been primarily investigated as an urban phenomenon, less is known about neo-craft activities located outside the city and in non-urban settings. Based on large-scale qualitative research in the European Union, this article illustrates the motivations and contradictions that underpin the mobility and work trajectories of a set of neo-artisans who have decided to live and work away from large international cities. We show that, for them, spatial dislocations and mobility strategies are part of the same ‘good life’ project, and argue that neo-craft work should be seen as an example of ‘disconnection from work’ with a spatial component that is symptomatic of a cultural shift in the way work and its meaning are collectively imagined. Crucially, however, this is shaped by conditions of privilege and possibility, which do not merely affect individual choices but fundamentally distinguish those who can afford to undertake this lifestyle change from those who cannot.

近年来，“远离工作”的呼声日益高涨。在这个框架下，新工艺职业成为寻找有意义工作的工人的一个有吸引力的选择。虽然这些主要是作为一种城市现象进行调查，但人们对城市以外和非城市环境中的新工艺活动知之甚少。基于在欧盟进行的大规模定性研究，本文阐述了一群决定远离国际大都市生活和工作的新工匠的流动性和工作轨迹背后的动机和矛盾。我们表明，对他们来说，空间错位和流动性策略是同一个“美好生活”项目的一部分，并认为新工艺作品应被视为“与工作脱节”的一个例子，其空间成分是工作方式及其意义集体想象的文化转变的症状。然而，至关重要的是，这是由特权和可能性条件决定的，这不仅影响个人的选择，而且从根本上区分了那些有能力承担这种生活方式改变的人与那些没有能力承担这种生活方式改变的人。

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Social infrastructure in diverse and unequal cities: Examining Civic Management facilities in Barcelona 不同和不平等城市的社会基础设施：考察巴塞罗那的市政管理设施

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City, Culture and Society

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2025.100666

Marina Pera

This article offers a nuanced exploration of the notion of social infrastructure and its capacity to foster encounters and strengthen social ties in urban contexts. Focusing on Civic Management Facilities in Barcelona—municipally owned and funded spaces managed by local non-profit associations that offer cultural, youth, and leisure activities accessible to all residents—this study examines their potential as central neighbourhood hubs. It addresses the gap in understanding how these facilities enable spaces of encounter in contexts characterised by social fragmentation, inequality, and diversity. Employing a mixed-methods case study approach, the findings reveal how social inequalities and power dynamics shape the use of Civic Management Facilities, often resulting in the underrepresentation of neighbourhood diversity. The study underscores the importance of agency in enhancing inclusive participation by vulnerable groups within social infrastructures. Facility managers, through sustained efforts, implement mechanisms to promote user diversity and cultivate public familiarity—understood as the recognition of the facility and unfamiliar individuals as integral parts of the community. By analysing the relational dimension of social infrastructure, this research provides a deeper understanding of how these spaces can promote encounters and inclusion in urban settings marked by inequality and socio-cultural diversity.

本文对社会基础设施的概念及其在城市环境中促进相遇和加强社会联系的能力进行了细致入微的探索。关注巴塞罗那的市政管理设施——由当地非营利协会管理的市政拥有和资助的空间，为所有居民提供文化、青年和休闲活动——本研究考察了它们作为中心社区枢纽的潜力。它解决了在理解这些设施如何在以社会分裂、不平等和多样性为特征的背景下实现相遇空间的差距。采用混合方法的案例研究方法，研究结果揭示了社会不平等和权力动态如何影响公民管理设施的使用，往往导致社区多样性的代表性不足。该研究强调了机构在加强弱势群体在社会基础设施中的包容性参与方面的重要性。设施管理人员通过持续的努力，实施促进用户多样性和培养公众熟悉度的机制，即承认设施和不熟悉的个人是社区不可分割的一部分。通过分析社会基础设施的关系维度，本研究更深入地了解了这些空间如何在以不平等和社会文化多样性为特征的城市环境中促进相遇和包容。

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