Creative economies, creative cities: Asian-European perspectives

The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent on many policy agendas in recent years. Governments have identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/creative industry products in the home market, aswell as for the growth of exports. The emphasis now lies on creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets – all in line with the move from cheap manufacture towards high value-added products and services. At the same time, the cultural and creative industries have become key drivers for urban regeneration and global repositioning of cities across Europe andAsia. Some of the themes, such as capital of culture, and attracting a ‘creative class’, have become global preoccupations. However, there are very real differences and ambiguities at play when such policy discourses move between historically distinct regions. By offering both Asian and European experiences, this volume shows the differences between them, and thus allows meaningful comparisons. The first to critically examine the intersection between creative industries and creative cities in Asia Provides critical and comparative perspectives between Asia and Europe Offers theoretical and theoretically informed empirical chapters INDICE: From the contents 1: Introduction: J. O’Connor, L. Kong.- CreativeEconomy Policies.- 2: Creative cities and the creative/cultural economy: a European perspective: A. Pratt.- 3: Notions of the creative industry in Asia: the interaction of past and present industrial forms: T. Tschang.- Creative Clusters.- 4: Spaces of culture and economy: mapping the cultural creative clusterlandscape: H. Mommaas: Creative clusters: arts and cultural activities in Singapore: L. Kong: 6: The capital complex: Beijing’s new creative clusters: M. Keane: A Creative Class?: 7: The European creative class and regional development: How relevant is Florida’s theory for Europe?: H. Kalsø Hansen, B. Asheim, J. Vang Lauridsen: 8: Getting out of place: the mobile creative class takes onthe local: K. Oakley.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9948-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés