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Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities (Hardcover)
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Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities (Hardcover)
Series: Regions and Cities
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The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of
small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure.
Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship
and to planning by city governments, which means that these
developments are subject to market dynamics as well as to political
discourse and action. Public-private partnerships as well as
conflicts of interests characterise the field, and a major issue
related to the strategic development of culture and leisure is the
balance between market and welfare. This field is gaining
importance in most cities today in planning, production and
consumption, but to the extent that these changes have drawn
academic attention it has focused on large, metropolitan areas and
on creative clusters and flagship high culture projects. Smaller
cities and their often substantively different cultural strategies
have largely been ignored, thus leading to a huge gap in our
knowledge on contemporary urban change. By bringing together a
number of case studies as well as theoretical reflections on the
cultural political economy of small cities, this volume contributes
to an emerging small cities research agenda and to the development
of policy-relevant expertise that is sensitive to place-specific
cultural dynamics. In taking this approach, the volume has the
following aims: * To contribute to the emerging research programme
on small cities and to go beyond the current empirical studies in
this area by combining theoretical development with case studies. *
To contribute to emerging research on culture and leisure economies
by developing a differentiated spatial dimension to it, without
which sustainable urban strategies cannot be developed. * To
integrate perspectives of economic development with questions of
agency, governance and equity in relation to the fields of culture
and leisure planning and development.
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