The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development; and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media; digital arts; music and film; and the design industries and professions; as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural economy now represents the third-largest sector in many metropolitan cities of the West including London; Berlin; New York; San Francisco; and Melbourne; and is increasingly influential in the development of East Asian cities (Tokyo; Shanghai; Hong Kong and Singapore); as well as the mega-cities of the Global South (e.g. Mumbai; Capetown; and Satilde;o Paulo). Cities and the Cultural Economy provides a critical integration of the burgeoning research and policy literatures in one of the most prominent sub-fields of contemporary urban studies. Policies for cultural economy are increasingly evident within planning; development and place-marketing programs; requiring large resource commitments; but producing ndash; on the evidence ndash; highly uneven results. Accordingly the volume includes a critical review of how the new cultural economy is reshaping urban labour; housing and property markets; contributing to gentrification and to lsquo;precarious employmentrsquo; formation; as well as to broadly favorable outcomes; such as community regeneration and urban vitality. The volume acknowledges the important growth dynamics and sustainability of key creative industries. Written primarily as a text for upper-level undergraduate and Masters students in urban; economic and social geography; sociology; cultural studies; and planning; this provocative and compelling text will also be of interest to those studying urban land economics; architecture; landscape architecture and the built environment.
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