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Rethinking Creative Cities Policy: Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Creative Cities Policy Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists

Edited By Allan Watson, Calvin Taylor Copyright 2016
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge
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In recent years, there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the ‘creative city’ concept, due to the anticipation of economic and social benefits from a growing cultural and creative economy. However, a lack of understanding of local social and economic contexts, as well as the complexities and challenges of cultural production, has resulted in formulaic, ineffective misguided... Read more

1. Introduction

Allan Watson and Calvin Taylor

2. Invisible Creativity? Highlighting the Hidden Impact of Freelancing in London’s Creative Industries

Oli Mould, Tim Vorley and Kai Liu

3. The Role of Universities in the Regional Creative Economies of the UK: Hidden Protagonists and the Challenge of Knowledge Transfer

Roberta Comunian, Calvin Taylor and David N. Smith

4. Spatial–Relational Mapping in Socio-Institutional Perspectives of Innovation

Rachel C. Granger

5. Creative City Policy and the Gap with Theory

Jan Jacob Trip and Arie Romein

6. Cultural Amenities: Large and Small, Mainstream and Niche - A Conceptual Framework for Cultural Planning in an Age of Austerity

Robert C. Kloosterman

Biography

Allan Watson is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and an Associate Director of the Globalisation and World Cities research network.

Calvin Taylor is Professor in Cultural Economy at the University of Leeds, UK, and Director of the Culture, Society and Innovation Research Hub.

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