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The cultural economy of cities : a comparative study of the audiovisual sector in Hamburg and Lisbon
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.1587
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2000
Sprache
English
Author(s)
TORE-DOI
Volume
3
Issue
7
Start Page
253
End Page
268
Citation
European Urban and Regional Studies 3 (7): 253-268 (2000)
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Scopus ID
This article examines the role that big cities play in an ongoing change towards a ‘global cultural economy’. Starting from Allen Scott’s argument that a handful of urban flagships may benefit from this shift,
it looks for an alternative approach to the territorial dimension of the ‘culture–economy nexus’ based on a more complex understanding of urban culture. A broad theoretical discussion of Scott’s ideas, as well
as on the key concepts of culture, economy and the city, is placed alongside two case studies of the development of the audiovisual (AV) media sector in two European metropolitan regions, Hamburg and
Lisbon. The article concludes that the territorial dimension of the ‘culture–economy nexus’ is more than the mere concentration of culturally informed economic activity in a few urban ‘master hubs’.
Rather, it can be characterized as a non-linear refracted shift, to a large extent moving along historically and culturally determined trajectories of cities and regions.
it looks for an alternative approach to the territorial dimension of the ‘culture–economy nexus’ based on a more complex understanding of urban culture. A broad theoretical discussion of Scott’s ideas, as well
as on the key concepts of culture, economy and the city, is placed alongside two case studies of the development of the audiovisual (AV) media sector in two European metropolitan regions, Hamburg and
Lisbon. The article concludes that the territorial dimension of the ‘culture–economy nexus’ is more than the mere concentration of culturally informed economic activity in a few urban ‘master hubs’.
Rather, it can be characterized as a non-linear refracted shift, to a large extent moving along historically and culturally determined trajectories of cities and regions.
DDC Class
300: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
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