Creative Industry Districts

This book provides insight into creative industries and spaces in Shanghai, the fastest-growing megacity in China and the center of modern economic development. This spatial phenomenon is examined through analysis of dynamics, networks and implications.

Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently striving to transform its economy from made in China towards created in China. This book provides an insight into creative industries and spaces in Shanghai, which is the fastest growing megacity in China and the center of modern economic development on a global scale. Underpinned by new approaches from economic geography and urban studies, it deals with the new relations between the creative economy and urban environment in Shanghai. Over the last decade, creative clusters have been rapidly emerging in particular locations in the central city of Shanghai. This spatial phenomenon is explained in the book through an analysis of dynamics, networks and implications.

This in-depth empirical study offers new approaches and perspectives on the current discussion of creative industries Provides numerous first-hand materials to the readers with valuable background information of the creative economy in China and Shanghai Includes evidence-based recommendations on "creative city-making" for urban practitioners and planners

Autorentext

Jinliao He is currently a post-doctor at the Department of Human Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He received his PhD in Human Geography in 2013 at University of Heidelberg. Over past 4 years he has been focusing on creative industries in China and Shanghai. This book is the main part of the outcome of his PhD program. He places his research field in between economic geography and urban geography. His research results have been published in both national and international journals, including Planners, Journal of Urban Planning and Development (ASCE), and Sociology Study.

Klappentext

This book provides insight into creative industries and spaces in Shanghai, which is the fastest growing megacity in China and center of modern economic development on a global scale. Underpinned by new approaches from economic geography and urban studies, it deals with the new relations between the creative economy and urban environment in Shanghai. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently striving to transform its economy from made in China towards created in China. Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. Over the last decade, creative clusters have been rapidly emerging in particular locations in the central city of Shanghai. This spatial phenomenon is explained in the book through an analysis of dynamics, networks and implications.

Inhalt

Introduction.- From the New Economy to Creative City.- Characterizing Shanghai's Creative Industries and Districts.- Dynamics in Clustering of Creative Industries in Shanghai.- Network Analysis of Creative Clusters in Shanghai.- Impacts of Creative Industry Districts in Shanghai.- Discussion and Conclusions.