Rethinking Creative Cities Policy

<p>In recent years there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the ‘creative city’ concept due to the anticipation of economic and social benefits from a growing cultural and creative economy. However a lack of understanding of local social and economic contexts as well as the complexities and challenges of cultural production has resulted in formulaic ineffective misguided policies. </p><p>This book is concerned in various ways with developing an understanding of the complex dimensions of cultural production and with tackling the often weak and implied links between research policy and urban planning. In particular contributors are concerned with agents protagonists and practices that appear to be somehow invisible to hidden from or indeed ignored in much contemporary creative cities policy. Drawing on case studies from the UK and the Netherlands chapters consider creative industries and policy across a range of scales from provincial cities and regional economies to the global cities of London and Amsterdam. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>European Planning Studies.</i></p>