Culture policy is a rising issue in local governance. However, the character of this policy is
not clear according to the classical division between developmental and redistributive local …

The cultural economy has, in recent years, been the object of signifi cant attention in studies
of urban development. The rising importance of cultural activities in this regard is scarcely …

Any understanding of the relationship between place and cultural policy has largely been
lost as part of a rhetorical critique of a neo-liberal regeneration which has, in turn …

This study examines how the past is used in the construction of regional identity narratives in
policy discourses and documents. Despite assumptions that regional identity is based on …

This paper makes a contribution to the fledgling literature on policy mobilities and mutations.
Using the example of the internationalization of the Business Improvement District (BID) …

The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some
cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. Some commentators have …

A major concern of work in urban and political geography in recent decades has been to
analyze how and in whose interests local space economies are produced and reproduced …

Regions frame cultural traditions, meanings and performances but in relation to national
imaginaries regions have asynchronous legacies that nourish their distinctiveness. While …

Building upon the companion paper in this issue, this essay analyses five case studies that
can be taken as prototypes of the system‐wide cultural district culture‐led developmental …