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Where Is Creativity In The City? Integrating Qualitative And Gis Methods, Christopher R. Gibson, Christopher Brennan - Horley
Where Is Creativity In The City? Integrating Qualitative And Gis Methods, Christopher R. Gibson, Christopher Brennan - Horley
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This paper discusses a new blend of methods developed to answer the question of where creativity is in the city. Experimentation with new methods was required because of empirical short- comings with existing creative city research techniques; but also to respond to increasingly important questions of where nascent economic activities occur outside the formal sector, and governmental spheres of planning and economic development policy. In response we discuss here how qualitative methods can be used to address such concerns, based on experiences from an empirical project charged with the task of documenting creative activity in Darwinöa small city in Australia's …