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The so-called 'creative industries' are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Many cities worldwide are seeking to make themselves more creative, by developing strategies, building facilities or defining particular quarters. Such policies have been influenced by debates that claim the importance of place for economic development, and for the operation of creative industries in particular. There is an extensive literature that seeks to understand the relationships between place and the creative industries. This work mostly focuses on the locational choices of these industries and their workers, as well as the resultant spatial patterns of the industries' work and leisure activities, and the distribution of the firms themselves. Creative industries seem to cluster in neighbourhoods on the fringe of the inner city, the "zone in transition" identified long ago by Burgess (1928, 106), "an interstitial area in the throes of change from residence to business and industry" which is home to a "mobile and mixed population of youth and old age, aspiring and defeated individuals, pleasure-seeking Bohemians and hardworking students . .

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Author

Quentin Stevens

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences