Toward a Cultural Economic Geography of Creative Industries and Urban Development : Introduction to the special issue on creative industries and urban development

Flew, Terry (2010) Toward a Cultural Economic Geography of Creative Industries and Urban Development : Introduction to the special issue on creative industries and urban development. The Information Society, 26(2). (In Press)

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Abstract

The connections between the development of creative industries and the growth of cities was noted by several sources over the 2000s, but explanations relating to the nature of the link have thus far provide to be insufficient. The two dominant ‘scripts’ were those of ‘creative clusters’ and ‘creative/cities/creative class’ theories, but both have proved to be insufficient, not least because they privilege amenities-led, supply-drive accounts of urban development that fail to adequately situate cities in wider global circuits of culture and economic production. It is proposed that the emergent field of cultural economic geography provides some insights into redressing these lacunae, particularly in the possibilities for an original synthesis of cultural and economic geography, cultural studies and new strands of economic theory.

ID Code:	29851
Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	creative industries; , creative class, clusters, cultural studies, cultural economic geography, urban development, cities
ISSN:	0197-2243
Subjects:	Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100)
Divisions:	Research Centres > ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Schools > Journalism, Media and Communication QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Institutes > Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation
Copyright Owner:	Copyright 2010 Taylor and Francis
Deposited On:	21 Jan 2010 08:39
Last Modified:	22 Jan 2010 02:38

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