The Cultural Economy of a Border Renaissance: Politics and Practices in the City.

The production of culture in urban image-making has received much attention within geography. This paper intervenes in the culture-economy debates in a slightly different way - namely, through the lens of an understudied city of the global South. It examines the structure and discourses embedded in the Tijuana (Mexico) Municipal Plan 2005-07 to interrogate the work that culture performs with an eye to the impacts (both material and discursive) of official strategies across time and space. In so doing, two propositions are suggested. First, post-colonial spaces offer important sites from which to critique the conflation of cultural practice and policy. Secondly, the complex imbrication of culture and economy can be further distilled in grounding examples in ordinary cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]