Eventisierung der Stadt

Events have become an integral part of our everyday lives. They are professionally planned, designed using ingenious dramaturgy and convey a feeling of exclusivity. The event concept stands for a specific field of tension between economic utilization contexts and popular practice dimensions. Against the background of this conceptual blurring, the book focuses on processes of urban development as well as the normative potential of patterns of event production and reception. This means, on the one hand, urban development and event production as drivers of exclusion processes. On the other hand, eventing is seen as a meshing of production and reception processes. We all take part more or less actively in processes of eventing and usually accept them gratefully. The downsides of eventing and the inequalities that cause them, however, remain largely invisible. Using the example of Zurich, the question of how event cultures reorganize and network processes and practices of social self-reliance is examined. - Backcover.