Within a paradigm of culture‐led urban competition, discourse and debate has focused on
attracting the mobile creative class, diverting attention on cultural resources for lesser …

Engaging with both place and 'the local'has become an important part of cultural policy
rhetoric in many countries, from the resurgence of city-regional governance models to calls …

Let me start with a very useful passage from Jude Bloomfield and Franco Bianchini's
Planning for the Intercultural City, which positions some of the key issues with which I am …

Existing understandings of culture and creativity have been framed through particular tropes
which dominate global understandings of cultural practice. This is a problem because it …

This monograph is the fruit of an attempt develop an analytical framework to compare
everyday cultural diversity in two multi-ethnic urban neighbourhoods in France and the …

The creative economy is a key arena where austerity, localism and social policy debates are
being played out. This paper explores how cultural intermediation has been captured by a …

This chapter will discuss the case of cultural participation and practice over the last 40 years
in the town of Gateshead in the North-East of England. It will ask how do already existing …

Set in the context of tensions between 'community development'and 'creative cities' policy
agendas, which often implicitly privilege large-scale city-centre cultural assets, this paper …

In the United Kingdom, cultural policy has become closely entwined with the use of culture
as a resource for economic development, particularly under the 'creative industries' …

The decade after the 2007-2008 global economic and financial crisis had profound and
multifaceted impacts on European societies. Political cultures and values are being …