From Creative Industries to the Creative Place – Refreshing the Local Development Agenda in Small and Medium-sized Towns
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09 October 2017Testing how quite small cities with a rural hinterland, can generate a dynamic creative environment and creative industries is the objective of the project Creative Clusters. This URBACT project, led by the city of Obidos, gathers 10 European partners dealing with creative clusters in low density urban areas. Written by Creative Clusters Lead Expert Miguel Rivas, the article "
Download from_creative_industries_to_the_creative_place.pdf (1.11 MB)" draws attention to the potential role of creative industries in building the new post-crisis economic landscape, and how this is promoting a re-view of local development strategies in most innovative cities.
According to Miguel Rivas, few urban issues deal simultaneously so deeply with both space [physical dimension] and economy as creative industries. Indeed that is why these innovative cities are creating a sort of meta-projects or "local creative ecosystems" which deal with people (creative class), the economy (creative industries and entrepreneurs) and places (creative quarters or the very idea of the creative city) – all at the same time. This trend opens a window of opportunity for many well-positioned medium-sized urban agglomerations and is also a driver for re-thinking the current basis of rural development.
This paper argues for a "new cluster reading" of the local economy, strategies for attracting and retaining creative entrepreneurs, the creation of new urban working environments, the use of events as catalysts for local development, and building more creative educational environments.
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- Creative Clusters - URBACT website
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