Cultures urbaines et politiques culturelles

In today French Community of Belgium, we are still largely inheriting « labour » oriented cultural policies of the 1960s and 70s with no place for "urban" expression. Since then, the "urban culture" and the "street art" became relevant categories sustained by the private market and raising the concept of the "creative city". This paper examines this tension by focusing on the difficulties faced by cultural policies to integrate urban culture. It shows the risks of exclusion facing certain forms of urban expression that feature the creative city and the potential forms of appropriation of these urban expressions by the private market of art and culture.