Creative Cities:: An Introduction
Creative Cities:: An Introduction
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创意城市::简介
DOI:
10.4337/9781847209948.00007
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发表时间:
2007
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通讯作者:
L. Lazzeretti
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作者:
P. Cooke;L. Lazzeretti
What is the creative city? This is not the first recent book to investigate that important and growing question. A relatively recent collection by Power and Scott (2004) explored similar territory under the rubric of cultural industries and the production of culture. While we are delighted that books of this quality and range are becoming available for study and research, we aim in this book to be clear about one thing in particular. Most treatments in this burgeoning field tend to use the terms ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ interchangeably. As articulated with great precision for the case of Vancouver by Smith and Warfield in Chapter 12, in the book generally and in this introduction specifically we distinguish cultural economy and creative industries. This is because – as shown in a companion book to this one focusing upon Creative Regions (Cooke and Schwartz, 2007) – the two have almost totally distinctive modes of production, institutional bases and aesthetic content. Thus it can be a little alarming to see, as yet, inadequate recognition of these important differences. That is not to say that the two do not engage, interact and inspire each other as represented in ‘punk’ regalia or minimalist set design gracing presentations of Hamlet or Carmen, while it is notable that two of the globally style-defining costumier companies, Gucci and Prada, retain their functional bases in the adopted home town of Leonardo da Vinci in Florence. Nevertheless, fundamentally, those apparent contradictions sum up the important fissure that exists in conceptual and real terms between cultural economy and creative industries. The former, as displayed by the operatic illustration noted above, tends to be failed by the market and is perforce usually subsidized or sponsored by industry. It is seen as a public good that states are willing to cushion, efforts to ‘privatize’ in some countries notwithstanding. Accordingly, entrance to certain cultural economy facilities like museums and art galleries, where publicly owned, may be periodically free or, depending upon political ideology, periodically to be paid for. Even in the last case, ticket revenue alone is seldom sufficient to cover all overheads, not to mention acquisitions. So the cultural part of the economy has an