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A Glamorous Gentrification: Public Art and Urban Redevelopment in Hollywood, California
This paper will discuss the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority's Art programme. In particular, it will examine Gilbert ‘Magu’ Lujan's design for the subway station at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street and how it has been mobilized to serve the city's renewal. Often referred to by the title ‘Hooray for Hollywood’ (1999), Lujan's design is an example of a public art project used to brand urban space by reinforcing the city's historical connection to the film industry. It constructs a material dimension to the association between the streets of Hollywood and the concept of glamour. However, as will be argued, a glamorized Hollywood threatens to displace those communities and individuals that exist along the neighbourhood's social periphery. In other words, glamour promises to efface those very extremes that have long characterized the urban space in Hollywood.
A Glamorous Gentrification: Public Art and Urban Redevelopment in Hollywood, California
This paper will discuss the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority's Art programme. In particular, it will examine Gilbert ‘Magu’ Lujan's design for the subway station at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street and how it has been mobilized to serve the city's renewal. Often referred to by the title ‘Hooray for Hollywood’ (1999), Lujan's design is an example of a public art project used to brand urban space by reinforcing the city's historical connection to the film industry. It constructs a material dimension to the association between the streets of Hollywood and the concept of glamour. However, as will be argued, a glamorized Hollywood threatens to displace those communities and individuals that exist along the neighbourhood's social periphery. In other words, glamour promises to efface those very extremes that have long characterized the urban space in Hollywood.
A Glamorous Gentrification: Public Art and Urban Redevelopment in Hollywood, California
Reynolds, Matthew (author)
Journal of Urban Design ; 17 ; 101-115
2012-02-01
15 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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