the music market in seventeenth-century Naples -- 3. The transformation of orphanages in music conservatory as a … Turchini Conservatory (1584-1807) -- 5. The entrepreneurial adventure of music in the 19th century: the places, the …, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city. From the seventeenth century, Naples became one of the …

British cities have a surprisingly long history of cultural diversity. Recently they have become significantly more …

Richard Florida’s ‘creative class’ theory suggests that diverse, tolerant, ‘cool’ cities will outperform others. Ethnic … cities get the best jobs and most dynamic companies. This paper examines Florida’s ideas, focusing on the evidence in British … cities. Drawing on previously published work, it first tests the Florida model on a set of British cities, finding weak …

Culture is increasingly important in the contemporary processes of economic value creation, and cities are able to … significant amount of original knowledge production in global cities. …

Culture can now be used as an instrument for sustainable economic growth and developmental instrument of cities. By … cultural activities. This study forms a useful contribution on the role of culture in sustainable economic growth of cities. … reorganizing the socio-economic fiber of cities and using cultural activities for economic growth, we can drive these cities …

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue on creative cities and cultural spaces, as … offering new perspectives for tourism. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies some key concerns that cities … capability of cities to distinguish themselves from other competing places. Originality/value – The paper identifies key concepts …