Graeme Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2237-3604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 307 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Graffiti, Street Art and Ambivalence
The article considers the practice and praxis of graffiti and street art from the perspectives of law enforcement, local government and placemaking, and between the production and consumption of this ambivalent form of cultural expression. The work is based on primary, site-based research and visualisation undertaken in Europe, North America and Australia
Mega-Events: Placemaking, Regeneration and City-Regional Development
This book brings together different perspectives of mega-event bidding, hosting and legacies. Their impact is considered through an international range of mega-events in terms of land use, political and socio-economic change, and the placemaking processes that accompany these area-based regeneration projects. From city-regions that have not been successful or withdrawn from mega-event selection, to contemporary Olympic, FIFA World Cup and Expo ho…
Contemporary Crafts as Souvenirs, Artefacts and Functional Goods and their Role in Local Economic Diversification and Cultural Development
The development of an international craft market and industry, reviving lost or declining practices and styles, renders the label tourist arts inadequate, or at best misleading. While only a limited number of objects continued to be produced for tribal use, the production of crafts for an outside market grew in importance. The role of intermediaries in the economic development of local communities in developing countries, particularly the impact …
Emergence of a digital cluster in east London: Birth of a new hybrid firm
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the composition and geography of an emerging “creative digital” cluster in London, in the context of cluster theory and emerging creative cluster concepts. This argues that this cluster cannot be divorced from the wider regional creative and digital economy and that its inter-dependence with a small number of “content” industries is critical to its formation. The significance of the “creative digital” firm b…
Creative Cities – An International Perspective
This contribution to the Urban Studies field discusses the evolution of the Creative City concept and the factors underlying its classification and ranking through indices and international policy regimes. This reveals a convergence of the creative city as a meta-brand within which these various creativity factors and conditions serve as a basket of sub-brands. These concepts are then presented through an international survey of creative city and…
Participation and provision in arts & culture – bridging the divide
Successive policies and efforts to increase participation in a range of arts and cultural activities have tended to focus on the profile and attitude of individuals and target groups in order justify public – and therefore achieve more equitable – funding. Rationales for such intervention generally reflect the policy and political regime operating in different eras, but widening participation, increasing access and making the subsidised arts more…
Rethinking Place Branding and Place Making Through Creative and Cultural Quarters
Creative Clusters and Innovation. Putting Creativity on the Map, Caroline Chapain, Phil Cooke, Lisa de Propis, Stewart Macneill and Juan Mateos-Garcia (2010)
This latest report from NESTA's commissioned research series on creative clusters deals with the geography of innovation as displayed by a spatial analysis of selected creative industries in England
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. The paper considers the scope and scale of so-called…
Cultural mapping and sustainable communities: Planning for the arts revisited
The field of arts and cultural planning and the aspirations of cultural practitioners, arts development officers and town planners has had a long, if frustrated, history in the United Kingdom. The relationship between the land-use development system and arts and cultural policy has lacked specific provision guidance or standards. This is in contrast to other areas of leisure and recreation, such as parks and open spaces, sports facilities and lib…
Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration
Culture-led regeneration, as it has come to be known, is now a feature of cities-old and new-as they seek to revive former industrial and waterfront sites and city centres, and establish themselves as competitive cities of culture. At the same time, the rationale for cultural input to area and neighbourhood regeneration has been extended to include quality of life, as well as economic outcomes. The evidence of how far flagship and major cultural …
Rich Mix Cities From Multicultural Experience to Cosmopolitan Engagement
Whose Heritage Is It Anyway? Reconciling the 'National' and the Universal in Quebec City
Heritage is by definition an inheritance from the past destined for the future. It is a product of the present purposefully developed in response to current demands for it, and shaped by that market. It follows that the past is a quarry of possibilities from which selection occurs not only or even principally by chance survival but by deliberate choice (Ashworth 1994: 1)
Hard-branding the cultural city - from Prado to Prada
The industrial 'Event City', host to World Fair, sporting, cultural and ceremonial mega-event, has been transformed in its late-capitalist form into the 'City as Event'- from the all year round festival city to the ubiquitous 'Cities of Culture'. These self-styled culture cities now look to the contemporary art museum and cultural district to provide a cosmopolitan edge to their promotional icons and associations, with Art now acknowledged as an …
Cultural Planning: An Urban Renaissance?
Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both an historic continuity and contemporary response to economic and social change. Whilst the arts are considere…
Living in a World Heritage City: Stakeholders in the Dialectic of the Universal and Particular
This article is based on research undertaken in Québec city focusing on heritage interpretation and the promotion of 'national identity'. The discussion opens with a review of the term heritage, now identified as an 'industry', but also a problematic notion located in the dialectic of the universal and the particular. An assessment of the historic quarter, a World Heritage Site, provides the basis for a critique of the differing perspectives and …
World Heritage and the World Bank: Culture and Sustainable Development
This article comments on a recent initiative by international agencies, which focuses on heritage tourism in developing countries and draws on a comparative study of world heritage sites (WHS) undertaken by the author and colleagues (Evans 1999). The attention now awarded to heritage sites can be gauged by a recent initiative by the World Bank, in collaboration with UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization (WTO), titled Culture and Sustainable D…
Measure for measure: Evaluating performance and the arts organisation
This paper discusses the cultural policy and impacts of the application of performance indicators to subsidised arts organisations in Britain. The context of this study is the increased accountability and measurement of the outputs of arts organisations by government funding agencies, and the related drive for improved productivity and efficiency. In an extension of performance measurement regimes in ‘public good’ provision, and the arguments con…
European funding of culture: Promoting common culture or regional growth
Since the late 1970s, European funding of the arts has been a feature of the mixed‐funding regime and support of a range of community arts, training, heritage and regeneration programmes in Member States. In the late 1980s, following widened membership and more direct policy engagement by the European Commission, regional development began to support increasing levels of investment in culture, notably heritage, cultural tourism and city regenerat…
The economics of the national performing arts - exploiting consumer surplus and willingness-to-pay: A case of cultural policy failure
The subsidized national performing arts companies in Britain have experienced a transformation in their economic performance over the last decade. Significant increases in ticket prices have been achieved, but not as might be expected to offset reductions in government subsidy, which have generally been maintained or even increased, but instead to fund increased staff and administration costs. This paper examines the trends in performance, ticket…
Tourism economics
The National Lottery: Planning for leisure or pay up and play the game
This paper assesses the introduction and likely impact of the National Lottery on leisure provision in the United Kingdom. A commissioned study of proposed capital projects and events looking to Millennium and other Lottery funds in London in the starting point for a critique of the relative position of public funding of the arts and sport and the absence of policy and planning considerations in the Lottery grant process. The reassertion of a heg…
Hard-branding the cultural city - from Prado to Prada
The industrial 'Event City', host to World Fair, sporting, cultural and ceremonial mega-event, has been transformed in its late-capitalist form into the 'City as Event'- from the all year round festival city to the ubiquitous 'Cities of Culture'. These self-styled culture cities now look to the contemporary art museum and cultural district to provide a cosmopolitan edge to their promotional icons and associations, with Art now acknowledged as an …
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. The paper considers the scope and scale of so-called…
Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration
Culture-led regeneration, as it has come to be known, is now a feature of cities-old and new-as they seek to revive former industrial and waterfront sites and city centres, and establish themselves as competitive cities of culture. At the same time, the rationale for cultural input to area and neighbourhood regeneration has been extended to include quality of life, as well as economic outcomes. The evidence of how far flagship and major cultural …
Cultural mapping and sustainable communities: Planning for the arts revisited
The field of arts and cultural planning and the aspirations of cultural practitioners, arts development officers and town planners has had a long, if frustrated, history in the United Kingdom. The relationship between the land-use development system and arts and cultural policy has lacked specific provision guidance or standards. This is in contrast to other areas of leisure and recreation, such as parks and open spaces, sports facilities and lib…
Living in a World Heritage City: Stakeholders in the Dialectic of the Universal and Particular
This article is based on research undertaken in Québec city focusing on heritage interpretation and the promotion of 'national identity'. The discussion opens with a review of the term heritage, now identified as an 'industry', but also a problematic notion located in the dialectic of the universal and the particular. An assessment of the historic quarter, a World Heritage Site, provides the basis for a critique of the differing perspectives and …
Participation and provision in arts & culture – bridging the divide
Successive policies and efforts to increase participation in a range of arts and cultural activities have tended to focus on the profile and attitude of individuals and target groups in order justify public – and therefore achieve more equitable – funding. Rationales for such intervention generally reflect the policy and political regime operating in different eras, but widening participation, increasing access and making the subsidised arts more…
World Heritage and the World Bank: Culture and Sustainable Development
This article comments on a recent initiative by international agencies, which focuses on heritage tourism in developing countries and draws on a comparative study of world heritage sites (WHS) undertaken by the author and colleagues (Evans 1999). The attention now awarded to heritage sites can be gauged by a recent initiative by the World Bank, in collaboration with UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization (WTO), titled Culture and Sustainable D…
European funding of culture: Promoting common culture or regional growth
Since the late 1970s, European funding of the arts has been a feature of the mixed‐funding regime and support of a range of community arts, training, heritage and regeneration programmes in Member States. In the late 1980s, following widened membership and more direct policy engagement by the European Commission, regional development began to support increasing levels of investment in culture, notably heritage, cultural tourism and city regenerat…
The National Lottery: Planning for leisure or pay up and play the game
This paper assesses the introduction and likely impact of the National Lottery on leisure provision in the United Kingdom. A commissioned study of proposed capital projects and events looking to Millennium and other Lottery funds in London in the starting point for a critique of the relative position of public funding of the arts and sport and the absence of policy and planning considerations in the Lottery grant process. The reassertion of a heg…
The economics of the national performing arts - exploiting consumer surplus and willingness-to-pay: A case of cultural policy failure
The subsidized national performing arts companies in Britain have experienced a transformation in their economic performance over the last decade. Significant increases in ticket prices have been achieved, but not as might be expected to offset reductions in government subsidy, which have generally been maintained or even increased, but instead to fund increased staff and administration costs. This paper examines the trends in performance, ticket…
The National Lottery: Planning for leisure or pay up and play the game
This paper assesses the introduction and likely impact of the National Lottery on leisure provision in the United Kingdom. A commissioned study of proposed capital projects and events looking to Millennium and other Lottery funds in London in the starting point for a critique of the relative position of public funding of the arts and sport and the absence of policy and planning considerations in the Lottery grant process. The reassertion of a heg…
Tourism economics
European funding of culture: Promoting common culture or regional growth
Since the late 1970s, European funding of the arts has been a feature of the mixed‐funding regime and support of a range of community arts, training, heritage and regeneration programmes in Member States. In the late 1980s, following widened membership and more direct policy engagement by the European Commission, regional development began to support increasing levels of investment in culture, notably heritage, cultural tourism and city regenerat…
The economics of the national performing arts - exploiting consumer surplus and willingness-to-pay: A case of cultural policy failure
The subsidized national performing arts companies in Britain have experienced a transformation in their economic performance over the last decade. Significant increases in ticket prices have been achieved, but not as might be expected to offset reductions in government subsidy, which have generally been maintained or even increased, but instead to fund increased staff and administration costs. This paper examines the trends in performance, ticket…
Measure for measure: Evaluating performance and the arts organisation
This paper discusses the cultural policy and impacts of the application of performance indicators to subsidised arts organisations in Britain. The context of this study is the increased accountability and measurement of the outputs of arts organisations by government funding agencies, and the related drive for improved productivity and efficiency. In an extension of performance measurement regimes in ‘public good’ provision, and the arguments con…
World Heritage and the World Bank: Culture and Sustainable Development
This article comments on a recent initiative by international agencies, which focuses on heritage tourism in developing countries and draws on a comparative study of world heritage sites (WHS) undertaken by the author and colleagues (Evans 1999). The attention now awarded to heritage sites can be gauged by a recent initiative by the World Bank, in collaboration with UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization (WTO), titled Culture and Sustainable D…
Cultural Planning: An Urban Renaissance?
Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both an historic continuity and contemporary response to economic and social change. Whilst the arts are considere…
Living in a World Heritage City: Stakeholders in the Dialectic of the Universal and Particular
This article is based on research undertaken in Québec city focusing on heritage interpretation and the promotion of 'national identity'. The discussion opens with a review of the term heritage, now identified as an 'industry', but also a problematic notion located in the dialectic of the universal and the particular. An assessment of the historic quarter, a World Heritage Site, provides the basis for a critique of the differing perspectives and …
Whose Heritage Is It Anyway? Reconciling the 'National' and the Universal in Quebec City
Heritage is by definition an inheritance from the past destined for the future. It is a product of the present purposefully developed in response to current demands for it, and shaped by that market. It follows that the past is a quarry of possibilities from which selection occurs not only or even principally by chance survival but by deliberate choice (Ashworth 1994: 1)
Hard-branding the cultural city - from Prado to Prada
The industrial 'Event City', host to World Fair, sporting, cultural and ceremonial mega-event, has been transformed in its late-capitalist form into the 'City as Event'- from the all year round festival city to the ubiquitous 'Cities of Culture'. These self-styled culture cities now look to the contemporary art museum and cultural district to provide a cosmopolitan edge to their promotional icons and associations, with Art now acknowledged as an …
Rich Mix Cities From Multicultural Experience to Cosmopolitan Engagement
Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration
Culture-led regeneration, as it has come to be known, is now a feature of cities-old and new-as they seek to revive former industrial and waterfront sites and city centres, and establish themselves as competitive cities of culture. At the same time, the rationale for cultural input to area and neighbourhood regeneration has been extended to include quality of life, as well as economic outcomes. The evidence of how far flagship and major cultural …
Cultural mapping and sustainable communities: Planning for the arts revisited
The field of arts and cultural planning and the aspirations of cultural practitioners, arts development officers and town planners has had a long, if frustrated, history in the United Kingdom. The relationship between the land-use development system and arts and cultural policy has lacked specific provision guidance or standards. This is in contrast to other areas of leisure and recreation, such as parks and open spaces, sports facilities and lib…
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. The paper considers the scope and scale of so-called…
Creative Clusters and Innovation. Putting Creativity on the Map, Caroline Chapain, Phil Cooke, Lisa de Propis, Stewart Macneill and Juan Mateos-Garcia (2010)
This latest report from NESTA's commissioned research series on creative clusters deals with the geography of innovation as displayed by a spatial analysis of selected creative industries in England
Rethinking Place Branding and Place Making Through Creative and Cultural Quarters
Participation and provision in arts & culture – bridging the divide
Successive policies and efforts to increase participation in a range of arts and cultural activities have tended to focus on the profile and attitude of individuals and target groups in order justify public – and therefore achieve more equitable – funding. Rationales for such intervention generally reflect the policy and political regime operating in different eras, but widening participation, increasing access and making the subsidised arts more…
Creative Cities – An International Perspective
This contribution to the Urban Studies field discusses the evolution of the Creative City concept and the factors underlying its classification and ranking through indices and international policy regimes. This reveals a convergence of the creative city as a meta-brand within which these various creativity factors and conditions serve as a basket of sub-brands. These concepts are then presented through an international survey of creative city and…
Mega-Events: Placemaking, Regeneration and City-Regional Development
This book brings together different perspectives of mega-event bidding, hosting and legacies. Their impact is considered through an international range of mega-events in terms of land use, political and socio-economic change, and the placemaking processes that accompany these area-based regeneration projects. From city-regions that have not been successful or withdrawn from mega-event selection, to contemporary Olympic, FIFA World Cup and Expo ho…
Contemporary Crafts as Souvenirs, Artefacts and Functional Goods and their Role in Local Economic Diversification and Cultural Development
The development of an international craft market and industry, reviving lost or declining practices and styles, renders the label tourist arts inadequate, or at best misleading. While only a limited number of objects continued to be produced for tribal use, the production of crafts for an outside market grew in importance. The role of intermediaries in the economic development of local communities in developing countries, particularly the impact …
Emergence of a digital cluster in east London: Birth of a new hybrid firm
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the composition and geography of an emerging “creative digital” cluster in London, in the context of cluster theory and emerging creative cluster concepts. This argues that this cluster cannot be divorced from the wider regional creative and digital economy and that its inter-dependence with a small number of “content” industries is critical to its formation. The significance of the “creative digital” firm b…
Graffiti, Street Art and Ambivalence
The article considers the practice and praxis of graffiti and street art from the perspectives of law enforcement, local government and placemaking, and between the production and consumption of this ambivalent form of cultural expression. The work is based on primary, site-based research and visualisation undertaken in Europe, North America and Australia
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · The arts (6 works)