How cities have domesticated counterculture

© 2009 Allison H.

© 2009 Allison H.

In an unprecedented survey conducted between Geneva, Lisbon and Ljubljana, EPFL researchers show how urban cultural policies have absorbed the subversive nature of counter-culture over the past 40 years. To the point of reducing art to the status of profitable entertainment in a defined and regulated space. "La Liberté" conducts an interview with the director of this research, sociologist Luca Pattaroni.

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