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Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth - Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture (Hardcover)
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Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth - Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture (Hardcover)
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'The authors set out to develop a framework that explains if and
how co-creation can be used as ''strategy-as-practice.'' In doing
so, they have produced a wonderful case study on co-creating a
city's living and public space, the next movement and cultural turn
following the ''creative class'' studies in urban design. There are
innovative uses of narrative analysis to provide multiple
perspectives of the co-creative process. It contains valuable
insights for anyone interested in urban design.' - Hans Hansen,
Texas Tech University 'The book makes a very important contribution
to the strategy-as-practice field as it proposes a thorough
ethnography about how governments, academia, business, non-profits
and citizens engage themselves in the strategic and collaborative
process of planning. Drawing on a comprehensive and compelling
notion of ''action nets'', the book provides a fascinating
interpretive explanation that will be inspiring as well as for
academics and practitioners. This timely volume raises a host of
fascinating issues related to organizing and strategizing as
''co-creative practices'' and will be an invaluable resource across
multiple domains and organizational research areas. Moreover, the
book will convince you that ''small is beautiful''!' - Linda
Rouleau, HEC Montreal, Canada Over the past three decades, the
European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most
ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of
cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual
understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby
increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful
book outlines potential avenues through which culture and
creativity can raise the imaginative capability of citizens and
harness opportunities tied to what the book calls 'culture-driven
growth'. Building on three years of observations, interviews and
research the authors argue that a 'strategy-as-practice'
perspective can reveal how strategy making is enabled or
constrained by organizational and social practices. The authors
reveal how the 'sweet-spot' of city regeneration occurs where urban
and cultural planning are aligned. They then evaluate the practice
of 'co-creation' within organizing bodies and investigate the
extent to which its success depends on a fusion of top-down rules
and bottom-up action. Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth
will appeal to international scholars and students in organization
studies, geography, city governance and planning, urban design, and
urban and regional development. Policymakers and planners will also
find it to be a valuable resource.
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