Murals and the City

A Comparative Perspective on Practices, Policies, and Regulations

Eynat Mendelson-Shwartz, Nir Mualam

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040252222
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe. It reviews the rules, policies, and regulations that frame how murals and street art are managed across a range of cities and contexts. Murals and street art serve as dynamic stages for communities and individuals with multiple and sometimes opposing identities, with the potential to cause disturbance and conflict. The book investigates the challenges they present to cities and city administrations, and the policies and practices that are crafted to address them. The global landscape of today's mural policies is discussed comparatively across a range of cities, and the impact of written rules, unofficial practices, and institutional arrangements on city spaces, walls, and surfaces is examined. An important contribution to this growing field, the book will appeal to students, practitioners, and scholars with an interest in public art, municipal governance, public space management, cultural policy, and urban design.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I Framing murals and public policies
• 1 What exactly are murals?
• 2 Challenges associated with placing murals in the public realm
• 3 What exactly are mural policies?
• 4 Key dilemmas confronting decision-makers
• Part II A look under the hood: Analyzing five mural policies
• 5 Criteria for analyzing mural policies
• 6 Portland, Oregon, United States
• 7 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• 8 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
• 9 Jerusalem, Israel
• 10 Haifa, Israel
• Part III What can we learn from mural policies?: A comparative analysis
• 11 Governance structures, organizational configuration, and their impact on mural policies
• 12 Governing murals: A comparative overview
• 13 Post-production governance of murals in the public realm
• 14 A global perspective on mural policies: Results of an international survey of 119 cities around the world
• 15 Concluding remarks
• Appendix 1: List of cities represented in the international survey
• Appendix 2: Questionnaire of international survey
• Index