Kong / O'Connor Creative Economies, Creative Cities

Asian-European Perspectives
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9949-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 98, 234 Seiten

Reihe: GeoJournal Library

Justin O'Connor and Lily Kong The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years. Not only have governments identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/creative industry products in the home market, they have also seen the creative industry agenda as central to the growth of external m- kets. This agenda stresses creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets - all central to a wider agenda of moving from cheap manufacture towards high value-added products and services. The increasing importance of cultural and creative industries in national and city policy agendas is evident in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Australia, and New Zealand, and in more nascent ways in cities such as Chongqing and Wuhan. Much of the thinking in these cities/ countries has derived from the European and North American policy landscape. Policy debate in Europe and North America has been marked by ambiguities and tensions around the connections between cultural and economic policy which the creative industry agenda posits. These become more marked because the key dr- ers of the creative economy are the larger metropolitan areas, so that cultural and economic policy also then intersect with urban planning, policy and governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kong, Lily

O'Connor, Justin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;About the Authors;8
3;Introduction;12
3.1;Creative Economy Policies;13
3.2;Creative Clusters;13
3.3;A Creative Class?;14
3.4;The Making of Creative Cities;15
3.5;The Politics of the Creative City;15
4;Creative Economy Policies;17
4.1;Policy Transfer and the Field of the Cultural and Creative Industries: What Can Be Learned from Europe?*;18
4.1.1;Introduction;18
4.1.2;CCI and Policy Transfer;19
4.1.3;Review of European Experience;25
4.1.4;Conclusion;28
4.1.5;References;29
4.2;Creative Industries Across Cultural Borders: The Case of Video Games in Asia;33
4.2.1;Introduction;33
4.2.2;What Do We Know About the Economics of Creative Industries? From the Creativity of One to a Production- Based Economy;34
4.2.3;Creative Industry Production in Asia;36
4.2.4;Characterising the Asian Industries’ Creativity: Imitation;39
4.2.5;What Differentiates Creative Industries? Creativity, Culture and Adaptation;42
4.2.6;Summary;48
4.2.7;References;49
5;Creative Clusters;51
5.1;Spaces of Culture and Economy: Mapping the Cultural- Creative Cluster Landscape;52
5.1.1;Introduction;52
5.1.2;From Artistic Districts to Cultural Quarters;53
5.1.3;From Cultural to Creative Clusters: A Generalisation of the Debate;58
5.1.4;Mapping the Field;60
5.1.5;Conclusion;64
5.1.6;References;65
5.2;Beyond Networks and Relations: Towards Rethinking Creative Cluster Theory;67
5.2.1;Introduction;67
5.2.2;Singapore: An Empirical Case;69
5.2.3;Creative Clusters in Singapore;70
5.2.4;Reputation, Repose, and Rentals: The Value of a Cluster;76
5.2.5;Rivalry in Relationships: The Detracting Factor;77
5.2.6;Rethinking (Creative) Cluster Theory: The Next Brush Stroke;79
5.2.7;References;81
5.3;The Capital Complex: Beijing’s New Creative Clusters;82
5.3.1;Introduction: Growth Frenzy;82
5.3.2;Creative Clusters: The New Development Script;83
5.3.3;History: Geo-politics, Geo-architecture;86
5.3.4;Capital Culture;87
5.3.5;Beijing’s New Creative Clusters;90
5.3.6;Digital Capital in the West and North-West;91
5.3.7;The Centre and the East;92
5.3.8;Conclusion: Clusters or Real Estate?;96
5.3.9;References;99
6;A Creative Class?;101
6.1;The European Creative Class and Regional Development: How Relevant Is Florida’s Theory for Europe?;102
6.1.1;Introduction;102
6.1.2;The Creative Class Approach: Unpacking Florida;103
6.1.3;Dataset and Methods;107
6.1.4;Europe, the Creative Class and Regional Development: Statistical Findings;113
6.1.5;Conclusion;118
6.1.6;Appendix;120
6.1.7;References;122
6.2;Getting Out of Place: The Mobile Creative Class Takes on the Local. A UK Perspective on the Creative Class;124
6.2.1;Introduction;124
6.2.2;The Lure of Evidence;125
6.2.3;Methods and Madness;126
6.2.4;Running to Stand Still;128
6.2.5;Local Heroes – The Case of Sheffield;130
6.2.6;Creative Anywhere;132
6.2.7;The Politics of Attracting the Creative Class;133
6.2.8;Conclusions;134
6.2.9;References;135
6.3;Asian Cities and Limits to Creative Capital Theory;138
6.3.1;Introduction;138
6.3.2;The Myth of the Creative Class;139
6.3.3;The Riddle;140
6.3.4;Creative Capital Theory and Its Relevance to Asian Economies;142
6.3.5;References;152
7;The Making of Creative Cities;154
7.1;The Creative Industries, Governance and Economic Development: A UK Perspective;155
7.1.1;Introduction;155
7.1.2;The Creative Industries and Local Economic Development;156
7.1.3;Regions, Local Economies and Models of Economic Development;159
7.1.4;Economic Development and Local Governance;161
7.1.5;The Creative Industries, Local Economic Development and Governance;164
7.1.6;References;166
7.2;Shanghai’s Emergence into the Global Creative Economy;169
7.2.1;Introduction;169
7.2.2;Key Sectors in Shanghai’s Creative Industries;171
7.2.3;Existing Creative Industry Cluster Parks;172
7.2.4;Institutional Infrastructure;173
7.2.5;Challenges and Opportunities;175
7.3;Shanghai Moderne: Creative Economy in a Creative City?;176
7.3.1;The Writing on the Wall;176
7.3.2;Enlightenment and Violence;179
7.3.3;Brushing History Against the Grain;185
7.3.4;Modernity and the Cultural Critique of Capitalism;188
7.3.5;Chinese Creative Industries: More of the Same?;190
7.3.6;References;193
8;The Politics of the Creative City;195
8.1;Urbanity as a Political Project: Towards Post- national European Cities;196
8.1.1;Cities Enter Different Time-Spaces;196
8.1.2;Europe of Nations or of Regions?;198
8.1.3;Towards the Urban Republic?;199
8.1.4;The Brussels Case;201
8.1.5;A City Is Not a Country;203
8.1.6;References;204
8.2;Alternative Politics in Urban Innovation;206
8.2.1;Alternative Approaches to Planning Creative Spaces: Amsterdam and Helsinki;206
8.2.2;Urban Space, Creativity and Innovation;206
8.2.3;Place-Based Alternative Strategies;211
8.2.4;Alternative Policies in Practice;214
8.2.5;Case Study: Amsterdam NDSM Cultural Wharf;214
8.2.6;Case Study: Cable Factory in Helsinki;219
8.2.7;Discussion;224
8.2.8;References;225
8.3;Index;227