Art and Commerce as Logics of Budapest ' S New Public Spaces
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]udit Bodnar is a postdoctoral fellow at the University ofGhent, Belgium working in urban theory, housing, and the comparative historical analysis ofurban public space. She received a Ph.D . in Sociology from Johns Hopkins and has held postdoctoral positions at the Chicago Humanities Institute and Rutgers University. In November, 1996, two items ofcultural news stirred public opinion among Budapest's educated circles. A fierce debate that had erupted around the proposed transformation of the art movie theater network ended with the announcement of plans for the restructuring of the network (in operation for six years at that time). This came after several months of bitterness and resentment-a process seen by many as the beginning of the precipitous decline of the institution of art film distribution in Budapest. Meanwhile, the first big shopping and entertainment center-also containing a multiplex cinema-the one-million-dollar, paradoxically named Pole Center opened on the outskirts of the city. It made a forceful debut not just on the itineraries of the city's Christmas shoppers but also on the cultural scene. Even the traditional New Year Eve's cabaret of Kossuth Radio, the public-service national radio station, was broadcast from the new mall. Featuring an American-style multiplex movie theater and several other spots of culture broadly conceived, it was bound to make a clear mark on the map of cultural consumption practices in Budapest.
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