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GARCIA CANCLINI, Néstor. Symptoms or conflicts? Politics and Urban Researches. Alteridades [online]. 2008, vol.18, n.36, pp.13-22. ISSN 2448-850X.

The article treats the relations between culture and city in the last 15 years, as well as the restructuring of the cultural fields -the new role of the private companies and the weakening of the State in the cultural policies-, the audiovisual networks as key actors of the information and the entertainment and the urban disintegration and the sociocultural conflicts.

Palavras-chave : Cultural fields; urban disintegration; social participation; cultural policy.