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Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City 1st Edition

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A common sight in American cities today is the local bohemia, filled with hipsters, funky stores, picturesque dive bars, and aspiring artists. Yet not so long ago, these sorts of districts were relatively rare, and one had to travel to San Francisco or Greenwich Village to experience bohemia in all its glory. The last two decades, however, has seen the emergence of a mass alternative nation, populated by struggling screenwriters, oddball thrift stores, indie rockers, and thousands of coffee houses. It has sprouted in locales ranging from San Diego to Seattle, Athens to Cleveland. In Neo-Bohemia, Richard Lloyd asks, how did bohemia become such an ordinary thing?

In this witty exploration of one of America's most successful new bohemias, Chicago's Wicker Park - site of the hip film High Fidelity and launching pad of alt rock stars like Liz Phair - Lloyd shows that bohemia's new status is a result of broader social and economic transformations. As Neo-Bohemia shows, bohemia's creatures of the night, flaunting thrift store duds, piercings, and tribal tattoos, are the perfect labor force for these new industries. They are very creative, yet willing to work odd hours on a freelance basis. And the success of Wicker Park has only attracted more aspiring artists ready to toil in the information and tourism sectors at relatively low wages.

Neo-Bohemia is essential reading for anyone trying to get a handle not just on the growing prominence of alternative and hipster culture in America, but on how cities are retooling to become players in the information age economy.

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041595181X
ISBN-13

978-0415951814
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1st
Publisher

Routledge
Publication date

October 28, 2005
Language

English
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6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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312 pages
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"...It is an important contribution to urban studies that will be appreciated for years to come." - Mitchell Duncier, Princeton University and CUNY Graduate Center, and author of Sidewalk

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (October 28, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 041595181X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415951814
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2015

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Terrible stupid book bought for a useless class at SAIC.

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Sean A. Benesh

A Great Look Behind the Scenes of Bohemian Enclaves

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2012

Neo-Bohemia Cover Probably to the chagrin of many, I've been posting comments from Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City on my Twitter and Facebook pages quite a bit lately. Richard Lloyd weaves a masterful tale about neo-bohemia (and bohemians) set in the context of Wicker Park in Chicago. At 328 pages, the book wasn't overwhelmingly long but it had enough great content for Lloyd to articulate where he is going with the book and why. In his Afterword he again reminds the reader of his intentions of both exploring neo-bohemia and using Wicker Park as the backdrop. "This book is not intended as a definitive history of Wicker Park's bohemian output in the 1990s, but rather is an examination of a particular sort of neighborhood and its historical and structural antecedents." (262)

Lloyd sets out to explore and uncover modern day bohemian enclaves that dot inner-cities across the Western world, again focusing on Wicker Park as a prime example. Other such places that fit the neo-bohemian vibe would be neighborhoods and districts like Greenwich Village, SoHo, Capital Hill (Seattle), Mississippi Ave (Portland), just to name a few that quickly come to mind. From the book description, "Neo-Bohemia brings the study of bohemian culture down to the street level, while maintaining a commitment to understanding broader historical and economic urban contexts." The reasoning behind focusing on neo-bohemia is that, "the new bohemia of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries plays a necessary novel role in enhancing the interests of postindustrial capitalist enterprises, especially property speculation of various sorts, entertainment provision, and new media productions." (18)

Although academic in nature, I found the book refreshingly readable and enjoyable. It was certainly no slog-fest where I had to fight through the book. Instead, I was almost saddened when I reached the end because I had finally hit my stride and was tracking with where Lloyd was going and the points he was articulating. The book is laid out in four main sections; Industry and Art in the Modern City, A Postindustrial Bohemia, Artists as Useful Labor, and Conclusion.

So why read Neo-Bohemia? It goes beyond the superficiality of fashion and tracking where bohemians and hipsters live, it is about looking at the new economy that is reshaping the global city. "Artists may well play a cruicial part in transforming once decaying districts, and may, as I have argued, become not only advertisements for local hipness but resources in postindustrial labor markets, but they are an especially vulnerable population themselves." (258) This is paramount to understanding the changes that are taking place in cities across North America. When I look into my neighborhood in inner NE Portland the book gives me a different framework to understand what is undergirding the changes that are at hand regardless of how far along neighborhoods are in the gentrification process. It is to the gentrification process that Lloyd writes, "What this book primarily contributes to gentrification studies is not a further cataloguing of the evils of displacement, but a consideration of dynamic urban districts not only in terms of displacement and yuppie consumption, but also as postindustrial production sites, facilitating new forms of labor-force reproduction and exploitation." (260)

The book offers a good counter-balance for the bulk of Richard Florida's writing beginning with The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life . There are some areas where Lloyd and Florida see eye-to-eye and at other times Lloyd respectfully parts ways. With that said, they are complimentary books to read together. It is at this intersection, both in terms of bohemians and neo-bohemian enclaves where I explored in regards to faith lived out (metrospirituality) in these contexts in Metrospiritual: The Geography of Church Planting and View from the Urban Loft: Developing a Theological Framework for Understanding the City .

Overall, Neo-Bohemia was a phenomenal read. It was educational, entertaining, and eye-opening.

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Michael Kato

A Fascinating, Detailed Look at One of America's Most Dynamic Neighborhoods

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2011

Richard Lloyd has clearly done extensive research and interviews in writing his thoughtful narration of the history and current situation of Wicker Park. The economic collapse and then re-development of the neighborhood proves to be a perfect example of the kind of rebirth of capitalism that we are seeing in the USA in general.

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AJ

Gentrification and the City

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2006

Fantastic book centering on the gentrification of Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. Wicker Park, the once blight and gritty hood that attracted artists and other creatives due to cheap rents and proximity to the Loop, has become one of the hippest areas of the country by way of aspiring artists, rising musicians, and a healthy design commerce. "Neo-Bohemia" gives a somewhat detailed history of Wicker Park and insightful interviews with it's residents (not the yuppies thats have invaded the neighborhood) on their coined "bohemian" culture.

Beyond the history lesson, "Neo-Bohemia" explains how, in our postindustrial era, creative communities are viewed more positively and actually help to gentrify areas that were once avoided. Comparisons to NYC's Greenwich Village and SF's North Beach (along with Paris' Montparnasse and Montmartre) are made to better prove the point. Great read if you have any interest in gentrification and urban development. Only complaint is I felt that there was too much emphasis on the negative aspects of artists Vs. yuppies. I was hoping more for statistics, rehabs and major commerce associated with gentrifying areas.

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