Cultural Strategy of an International City: An Empirical Study of the Creative City Yokohama Policies

2000年代以来，创意城市政策作为在全球化和去工业化中衰落的城市的再生战略，受到了世界范围的关注。本研究以横滨市为对象，探讨2004年制定的“创意城市政策”的原因、目标和实施过程，评价其成果和存在的问题，其目标是吸引艺术家和设计师，形成创意产业集群，重塑市中心的滨水区。政策执行过程显示创意城市的议程以城市设计为特色，产业政策和公民参与薄弱，公共行政重组削弱了其空间视角。

Since the 2000's, the creative city policy has been attracting worldwide attention as a strategy for regenerating cities that have been declined with globalization and deindustrialization. This study focuses on the city of Yokohama, which adopted a creative city policy in 2004, examining the causes and aims of that policy and the actual processes of its implementation and evaluating its achievements and remaining problems.The objectives of the policy are to attract artists and designers, to form a cluster of the creative industry and to reshape the waterfront of downtown area. The processes of the policy implementation reveal that the agenda of the creative city is characterized by urban design, having a weakness in industrial policy and civic involvement, and diminishing its spatial perspective due to the reorganization of public administration.