Abstract: Recent debates on creative cities and the cultural industries are in many ways stuck in the past. They reproduce many of the same storylines developed more than ten or even twenty years ago but often leave behind the original normative concerns in favour of more narrowly defi ned methodological, empirical or theoretical questions. This, of course, is not intended to deny the practical ‘usefulness’ (unfortunately mostly understood as policy relevance) of a continued engagement with the creative city topic, but intellectually, these debates s...
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Economic geography
Regional science