The City of Bandung: Unfolding the process of a Creative City

Decentralisation in Indonesia has brought different impacts to regions following its development path dependence and institutional arrangements. This study aims to understand the role of both path dependence and institutional arrangements in the process of developing a creative city. This paper studies the city of Bandung development to unfold the system that supports its role as a creative city. The paper found that path dependency as historically centre of creative studies and emerging creative class has accelerate the city’s new economic activities.