Naujojo Vilniaus vizija posovietinėje urbanistinėje politikoje
New Vilnius Vision in the Post-Soviet Urbanistic Space

Summary/Abstract: Capitalist economy nowdays is undergoing a cultural turn. The new treatment of manufacturing as creation of services (especially as entertainment and cultural ones), informational city and creative industries popularizing rethorics mostly are related with neoliberal visions since every European capital today seeks to become the center of economy news, culture and innovations. Cultural policy here nearly “naturally” is linked to political and economic kind of problems supposedly to be solved by promoting all sorts of investments, consumption and tourism. The logic of postindustrial city development not accidentally is reflected by the right bank of Neris where at the end of the last decade of the former century new skyscrapers had been planned (nowdays already arisen) – local authorities building, commercial and offices’ complexes, entertainment center. The article seeks to discuss how news economy development is related to new modernity and European discourses in Vilnius’ planing rethoric. For this purpose the model of infromation city as global networking process analysed by Manuel Castells is used since new economy informationalism and networking processes today are easily seen in Vilnius’ urbanistic and cultural expansion. In this case, when talking about some new millennium Vilnius’ images we cannot forget that actively constructed images conflict between themselves too. Since they express not the only dominating (planned) culture but different interests having social groups’ strivings and reality of agonistic politics.

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