List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Contributors
Part I: Openings
1. Rethinking Creative and Cultural Practices from the Outside in - An
Interdisciplinary Exploration
Ilja Van Damme, Ruth McManus, and Michiel Dehaene
2. The Uncool Hunt: Searching for the Creative Suburb
David Gilbert
Part II: The Suburban Home as Locus of Creativity
3. "Pictures, Plants, and Ornaments": Jane Ellen Panton and Creative
Practice in the British Victorian Suburbs
Sarah Bilston
4. Battlegrounds of Taste and Distinction: Art and Antique Collectors in
the Suburban Hinterland of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Belgium
Ulrike Müller and Ilja Van Damme
5. The Art of Living in the Australian Suburb: Creative and Cultural
Production at Home in Suburban Melbourne, 1910s-1960s
Susan Reidy
6. Ideal Homes and Haunted Houses: Twenty-First-Century Irish Suburban Art
and Writing
Simon Workman
Part III: The Suburban Creative Milieu
7. Halfway between Nature and Culture: Uccle Centre d’Art, a Colony of
Artists in Brussels’s Suburbs in the Interwar Period
Tatiana Debroux
8. Exploring Creativity in Dublin’s Suburbs, 1900-2000: Insider, Outsider,
Bourgeois, or Bohemian?
Ruth McManus
9. Recreating Locality: Community and Identity in Budapest Suburbs,
1995-2020
János B. Kocsis
10. Creativity in Contemporary Housing Estate Neighbourhoods: The Case of
Kontula, Helsinki
Johanna Lilius
11. The Fung Bros Rep the Ethnoburb
Margaret Crawford
12. Grounding Suburban LGBTQ+ Vernacular Creativities in the Toronto
City-Region
Alison L. Bain
Part IV: Creating Suburbia
13. From Artistry to Agency? Transactional Architecture for the Creative
Fashioning of the Antwerp Suburbs in the Early Twentieth Century
Tom Broes and Michiel Dehaene
14. Creating Suburbs in North America: A Mutual Blind Spot
Richard Harris
