Creative Economies, Creative Cities Asian-European Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kong, Lily (Editor), O'Connor, Justin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: The GeoJournal Library, 98
• Subjects: Geography.; Physical geography.; Architecture.; Population.; Social sciences.; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions).; Social Sciences, general.; Population Economics.; Cities, Countries, Regions.

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, as well as for the growth of exports. The emphasis now lies on creati...

Table of Contents:

• Creative Economy Policies
• Policy Transfer and the Field of the Cultural and Creative Industries: What Can Be Learned from Europe?
• Creative Industries Across Cultural Borders: The Case of Video Games in Asia
• Creative Clusters
• Spaces of Culture and Economy: Mapping the Cultural-Creative Cluster Landscape
• Beyond Networks and Relations: Towards Rethinking Creative Cluster Theory
• The Capital Complex: Beijing's New Creative Clusters
• A Creative Class?
• The European Creative Class and Regional Development: How Relevant Is Florida's Theory for Europe?
• Getting Out of Place: The Mobile Creative Class Takes on the Local. A UK Perspective on the Creative Class
• Asian Cities and Limits to Creative Capital Theory
• The Making of Creative Cities
• The Creative Industries, Governance and Economic Development: A UK Perspective
• Shanghai's Emergence into the Global Creative Economy
• Shanghai Moderne: Creative Economy in a Creative City?
• The Politics of the Creative City
• Urbanity as a Political Project: Towards Post-national European Cities
• Alternative Politics in Urban Innovation.