Constrained pathways to a creative urban economy

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ID10864644
AuthorsShade T Shutter (0000-0002-8072-4134, Arizona State University, corresponding author), Shade T Shutters (Arizona State University), Rachata Muneepeerakul (0000-0001-9533-2611, University of Florida), J Lobo (0000-0002-0814-7168, Arizona State University)
Year2016
Volume53
Issue16
Pages3439-3454
Publication date2016-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098015616892
OpenAlexW2269513950
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited42

Creative (knowledge-intensive) occupations are now widely seen as a basis for urban economic prosperity. Yet the transitional pathways from a city’s current economy to a more creative economy are often difficult to discern or to navigate. Here we use a network perspective of occupational interdependencies to address questions of urban transitions to a creative economy. This perspective allows us to assess alternative pathways and to compare cities with regard to their progress along these pathways. We find that US urban areas follow a general trajectory towards a creative economy that requires them to increasingly specialise, not only in creative occupations, but also in non-creative ones – presumably because certain non-creative occupations complement the tasks performed by related creative occupations. This creates a pull towards non-creative occupations that becomes ever stronger as a city moves more towards a creative economy. All in all, cities with the most creative economies must undergo an overall diversification of specialised occupations, with a greater diversification rate for creative occupations, and maintain those creative specialisations despite the pull towards a non-creative economy

Business · Creative Cities · Creative City · Creative class · Creative economy · Creative industries · Creativity · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Interdependence · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Prosperity · Social science · Sociology · Urban economics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Marketing · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development

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