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Engaging Creative Communities In An Industrial City Setting, Chris Gibson, Ben Gallan, Andrew Warren
Engaging Creative Communities In An Industrial City Setting, Chris Gibson, Ben Gallan, Andrew Warren
Chris Gibson
Much has been said about how ‘creativity’ might infuse policymaking and planning – especially in the wake of popular bestsellers by Richard Florida and Charles Landry on ‘creative places’ and the ‘creative class’ (the latter a supposed demographic group associated with creative industries such as film, design and music, who are said to be the key to the economic fortunes of cities). Creativity, it is said, can be facilitated in particular urban environments, given the right preconditions such as ‘hip’ inner-city precincts, café culture and walkable dense clusters of design firms and retail and residential spaces. The common argument is …
Music Festivals: Transformations In Non-Metropolitan Places, And In Creative Work, Christopher Gibson
Music Festivals: Transformations In Non-Metropolitan Places, And In Creative Work, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown
Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown
Chris Gibson
This article stems from a project examining cultural assets in Wollongong - a medium-sized Australian city with a decentralized and linear suburban pattern that challenges orthodox binaries of inner-city bohemia/outer-suburban domesticity. In Wollongong we documented community perceptions of cultural assets across this unusual setting, through a simple public research method. At the city's largest annual festival we recruited the general public to nominate the city's most 'cool' and 'creative' places, by drawing on a map of Wollongong and telling their stories. Hand-drawn maps from 205 participants were combined in a Geographical Information System and 50 hours of stories transcribed for …
Sydney's Creative Economy: Social And Spatial Challenges, Christopher R. Gibson
Sydney's Creative Economy: Social And Spatial Challenges, Christopher R. Gibson
Chris Gibson
The recent popularity of Richard Florida's work on the rise of the 'creative class' invites attention not only on the size and impact of the creative economy in Australia, but on its geography as well." At the core of Florida's approach is the premise that places compete with each other for a new kind of economic development, fuelled not by the availability of raw materials, cheap labour, or state investment in infrastructure, but by the decisions of producers in creative industries such as film, music, design and advertising to live and work in particular localities. Such creative producers constitute a …
Goodbye Pram City: Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries In Creative City Research, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley
Goodbye Pram City: Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries In Creative City Research, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson
Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.
Mosquitoes In The Mix: How Transferable Is Creative City Thinking?, Christopher Gibson, Susan Luckman, Tess Lea
Mosquitoes In The Mix: How Transferable Is Creative City Thinking?, Christopher Gibson, Susan Luckman, Tess Lea
Chris Gibson
No abstract provided.