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Creative cities, cultural clusters and local economic development

Cooke, Philip N. (contributor); … - 2008

This book analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies. The authors argue that although they are normally conflated, the first...

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Global city makers : economic actors and practices in the world city network

Hoyler, Michael (ed.); Parnreiter, Christof (ed.); … - 2018

Parnreiter -- 3. Commodity traders as agents of economic globalization / Wouter Jacobs -- 4. Real estate and global capital … coalitions or global city makers?: globalization vs. new localism in Hamburg's maritime network / Markus Hesse -- 9. Chasing the … the world economy is managed and controlled, and discusses the significance of economic actors and their practices in the …

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Handbook of creative cities

Mellander, Chorlotta (contributor); … - 2011

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the "creative city" became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and...

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The rise of the city : spatial dynamics in the urban century

Kourtit, Karima (ed.); Nijkamp, Peter (ed.); … - 2015

Cities and city regions are growing throughout the world and this trend is forecast to continue well into the 21st …

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Sustainable cities : diversity, economic growth and social cohesion

Janssens, Madeleine (contributor) - 2009

This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity...

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European cities and global competitiveness : strategies for improving performance

Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.); Ietri, Daniele (ed.) - 2012

The volume begins with an Introduction, followed by a set of three papers in Part Two examining European urban competitiveness from the standpoints of measurement and policy. This section also provides a case study of the cities of one country - Italy - from which the reader can gain an...

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Pop Internationalism : Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?

Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2010

Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...

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Handbook of research methods and applications in urban economies

Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.); Sobrino, Jaime (ed.) - 2013

systems in cities throughout the world. It gives researchers, lecturers and students a useful taste of the different ways of …

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Handbook on the experience economy

Sundbo, Jon (ed.); Sørensen, Flemming (ed.) - 2013

This illuminating Handbook presents the state-of-the-art in the scientific field of experience economy studies. It offers a rich and varied collection of contributions that discuss different issues of crucial importance for our understanding of the experience economy. Each chapter reflects...

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A world in emergence : cities and regions in the 21st century

Scott, Allen John - 2012

cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world …

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