Creative Clusters – Urban Utopia or Regional Remedy?

Neoliberal Utopia and Urban Realities in Delhi

Since 1991, the city of Delhi in India has become a focal point of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has been accompanied by local government efforts to attract both foreign and domestic investment, particularly in the service sectors of the economy. The attraction of investment has been achieved by spatial reconfiguration, pitting the interest of global and domestic capital agai...

Creative Cities, Creative Spaces and Urban Policy

The paper presents the results of an international study of creative industry policies and strategies, based on a survey of public-sector creative city initiatives and plans and their underlying rationales. As well as this survey and an accompanying literature review, interviews were carried out with senior policy-makers and intermediaries from Europe, North America, Africa and south-east Asia....

Dynamic Cities and Creative Clusters*

This paper focuses on how urban policies and the clustering of creative industries has influenced urban outcomes. The set of creative industries include those with output protectable under some form of intellectual property law. More specifically, this subsector encompasses software, multimedia, video games, industrial design, fashion, publishing, and research and development. The cities that f...

Erythrocyte transfusion: remedy or poison?

Planning for Creative Urban Regions

Progress toward better understanding of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their contribution to knowledge-based urban development is evident. The move has been made from Mitchell's (1995) visions of electronic ago-ras and windowless and peopleless libraries, and discussions of expected policy challenges and implications toward academic and applied attention to the ICT-relate...