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‘The creative cityis about people,not economics’.Discussion in thelight of the actualexperiences ofcreative cities.
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1. Introduction
In this essay, the author will discusswhether the idea of idea of creative city isfocused on people rather than economy. In thefirst part I will introduce the subject giving acontext based upon the basic literature and some basic working definitions. In a second part I willshow arguments supporting the idea that creativecity is basically a concept focused mainly on people and in a third part I will expose counter arguments based on literature but also onempirical information trying to show that besidesthe original intentions, this concept has become
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2. Context
Since some urban planners and scholarsstarted using the term creative city (Landry andBianchini, 1995; Landry, 2000), many papers and books have been written in order to explain theoutreach of such concept and in a broader senseall those ideas related, such as creative economy,creative class, cultural industry, creative city andso on, which since those years have started beenused interchangeably in different contexts,
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‘The creative city is about people, not economics’. Discussion in the light of the actual experiences of creative cities.
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