The cultural economy in cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23249042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Hutton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Handbook of Urban Geography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4337/9781785364600.00022 |
| OpenAlex | W2949490251 |
| ISBN | 9781785364600 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Cultural industries develop on a base of institutions, territory, social and human capital, and agglomeration economies. Digital technology is allied with arts and design capabilities in production processes, while the Internet is a critical channel for outsourcing and marketing. Cities generate important demand factors for cultural products and services, including the consumption preferences of the new middle class and, more recently, aspirational cohorts of high net worth individuals deploying high-value cultural cues to signal status. Space, place and territory represent critical factors in the cultural economy of the city: artists represent the vanguard of gentrifiers within the inner city, while many creative enterprises exhibit a preference for the textured landscapes of heritage districts. But as high-value design firms displaced the early populations of artists in the first decade of the twenty-first century, cultural industries are dislodged from their preferred territories in the city by waves of ‘innovation economy’ industries characterized by deeper technological content and higher profit potential.
Business · Consumption (sociology) · Creative industries · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Value (mathematics) · Art History and Market Analysis · Cultural Industries and Urban Development
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |