Art in transit: Mobility, aesthetics and urban development.

High-profile architecture and design, alongside integrated arts and cultural programming are now ubiquitous features of public transit networks. This article considers how and why transit-based arts and cultural programmes are proliferating globally as well as the impact of these programmes on transit and urban dynamics. Through critically analysing the discourses surrounding different transit art initiatives and the institutional structures which support them, this article shows how transit art is used today for varied - and often contradictory - ends. Based on this, it argues that we should not uncritically celebrate the rise of transit art as an unmitigated civic good. Rather, we must situate the rise of transit art within a political and aesthetic economy in which art has become 'expedient', and contend with the way transit art is implicated in elite, exclusionary and unsustainable processes of urbanisation. 如今，引人瞩目的建筑和设计以及综合艺术和文化项目已成为公共交通网络的普遍特征。本文探讨了基于公共交通的艺术和文化项目如何以及为何在全球范围内激增，以及这些项目对公共交通和城市动态的影响。通过批判性地分析不同交通艺术计划的话语和其背后的制度结构，本文展示了交通艺术今天如何被用于不同的—而且往往是相互矛盾的—目的。基于此，我们认为我们不应该不加批判地为交通艺术的兴起而欢呼，将其视为一种不折不扣的公共物品。相反，我们必须将交通艺术的兴起置于艺术已成为“权宜之计”的政治和美学经济背景中，并反对交通艺术所代表的精英化的、排斥性的和不可持续的城市化进程。.

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