Description
The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world’s population, particularly in relation to the significance of cities as sites of cultural production and consumption. Much of the work on creative industries and cities, however, has drawn upon 'imagined geographies' about the relationship between creativity and place. This collection draws together contributions that critically appraise recent urban cultural policy discourses, as well as reflecting on the role of culture and creative industries in the future development of cities.
This book is based on a special issue of The Information Society: An International Journal.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Creative Industries and Cities Terry Flew 2. Beyond the Inner City: Real and Imagined Places in Creative Place Policy and Practice Christy Collis, Emma Felton and Phil Graham 3. Putting inspiration on the map: Qualitative GIS for creative city research Chris Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Chris Gibson, Julie Willoughby-Smith 4. Upwave Cities, Creative Cities: the Case of London John Montgomery 5. Developing a Creative Cluster in a Post-industrial City: The Creative Industries Development Service (CIDS) and Manchester Justin O’Connor and Xin Gu 6. Can Beijing become a global media capital? Angela Lin Huang 7. Creative Industries Debates in the 2000s Terry Flew and Stuart Cunningham
