Content:
Intro 7
1. 2016: A Year of Confusion 11
- Smart Growth: A Contradiction in Terms? 12
- A Growing Discomfort 15
- The Age of Innocence 17
- Policy Hesitations 21
2. Lessons from the Statistics 24
- A Series of Data Explorations 24
- The Only Way Used to Be Up 26
- Have Love, Will Travel 29
- The Visual Artist As Traveller 31
- Trending Countries 33
- The Flag Versus the Substance 34
3. Six Frictions and Contradictions 38
- Inequality in a Growing Market 39
- Freedom and Frenzy 40
- Inspiration and the Grind 42
- Geography or Demography? 43
- Mobility and Privilege, Isolation and Exoticism 45
- The Gap between Thinking and Doing 47
4. The New International Practice 49
- A Balancing Exercise 49
- A Wicked Problem 51
- 25 Tracks for a more Sustainable
- International Arts Practice 52
- Economic Capital 54
- Human Capital 56
- Intellectual and Artistic Capital 58
- Social Capital 61
- Natural Capital 63
And Then: Just Do It 67
Notes 70
* Images 75