This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this volume uses a creative ecosystems perspective to articulate and underpin examples of sustainable growth and development with respect to cultural production.

This volume offer a distinctive, in-depth understanding of how creative and cultural policy works in cities from around the world not solely from academic or policy perspectives but including practitioners as well. The book aims to question and reformulate policy as it has been developed through creative industries approaches and instead offer up different examples and approaches to regional development with a focus on cultural production. The book carves a creative economy policy-oriented path of development that reflects the real world.

Offers a comprehensive understanding of creative and cultural policy in global cities Provides numerous examples and approaches to regional development with a focus on cultural production Presents a creative economy policy-oriented path of development

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Tarek E. Virani is Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the College of Art, Technology and Environment at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is co-lead of the Creative Economies Lab at the Digital Cultures Research Centre. He also leads the Global Creative and Cultural Industries Research and Policy Group.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Film making as a creative ecosystem: The case of Soho in London.- Chapter 3: The performing arts ecosystem in Abu Dhabi: Sustainability, resilience, and local capacity building.- Chapter 4: From Strangers to a Designer Community: An Ecosystem Perspective of Creative Hub formation in Taipei City.- Chapter 5: Understanding the role of creative networks for cultural and creative industries: The case of Creative Cardiff.- Chapter 6: SESC: A Brazilian music ecosystem orchestrator.- Chapter 7: Bristol's Film and Television Industries: An Incremental Ecosystem.- Chapter 8: From metaphor to measurement of popular music ecosystems: Putting diversities at the heart of resilience.- Chapter 9: Relative Values in the multidimensional impact in arts: the case of Contact Theatre.- Chapter 10: The Global Creativity Index: National Creativity Ecosystems and their Relationship to Economic Development and Inequality.- Chapter 11: Why a better understanding of the ecosystems of cultural production could have a major impact on public policy.- Chapter 12: Exploring the Productivity Drivers in Zimbabwe's Creative and Cultural Industries: Towards Resilient Creative Ecosystems.- Chapter 13: In denial, artists in the UK creative economy: A focus on artist-led businesses.- Chapter 14: Networks for inclusion.- Chapter 15: Keeping to the Margins: Understanding the role of symbolic violence and institutional fields in creative ecosystems.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Film making as a creative ecosystem: The case of Soho in London.- Chapter 3: The performing arts ecosystem in Abu Dhabi: Sustainability, resilience, and local capacity building.- Chapter 4: From Strangers to a Designer Community: An Ecosystem Perspective of Creative Hub formation in Taipei City.- Chapter 5: Understanding the role of creative networks for cultural and creative industries: The case of Creative Cardiff.- Chapter 6: SESC: A Brazilian music ecosystem orchestrator.- Chapter 7: Bristol's Film and Television Industries: An Incremental Ecosystem.- Chapter 8: From metaphor to measurement of popular music ecosystems: Putting diversities at the heart of resilience.- Chapter 9: Relative Values in the multidimensional impact in arts: the case of Contact Theatre.- Chapter 10: The Global Creativity Index: National Creativity Ecosystems and their Relationship to Economic Development and Inequality.- Chapter 11: Why a better understanding of the ecosystems of cultural production could have a major impact on public policy.- Chapter 12: Exploring the Productivity Drivers in Zimbabwe's Creative and Cultural Industries: Towards Resilient Creative Ecosystems.- Chapter 13: In denial, artists in the UK creative economy: A focus on artist-led businesses.- Chapter 14: Networks for inclusion.- Chapter 15: Keeping to the Margins: Understanding the role of symbolic violence and institutional fields in creative ecosystems.