Before and after the Creative City: The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy in Austin, Texas

@article{Grodach2012BeforeAA,
  title={Before and after the Creative City: The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy in Austin, Texas},
  author={Carl Grodach},
  journal={Journal of Urban Affairs},
  year={2012},
  volume={34},
  pages={81 - 97}
}
  • C. Grodach
  • Published 1 February 2012
  • Political Science
  • Journal of Urban Affairs
ABSTRACT: This article examines the politics and practice of urban cultural policy in Austin, Texas. I demonstrate how aspects of the local context frame how local government and cultural sector interests strive to initiate the direction of policy. While larger trends—such as Richard Florida’s creative city thesis—influence cultural policy and planning, specific contextual factors including prior economic development and growth management policy, departmental organization, the forum for… 
View on Taylor & Francis
67 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
3
Background Citations
27
Methods Citations
2

67 Citations

Creating Hegemony: Montreal’s cultural development policies and the rise of cultural actors as entrepreneurial political elites.

Culture-led regeneration and creativity policies appear to have achieved broad societal acceptance in many cities in North America and Europe. This research explores how a discursive articulation of…

Mobilizing Alternative Modes of Cultural Governance in Berlin

This chapter explores how political actors constitute themselves and how they intervene in existing urban governance arrangements to enact alternative visions of social and cultural urban…

Beyond the Creative City: Cognitive–Cultural Capitalism and the New Urbanism

Scott A. J. Beyond the creative city: cognitive–cultural capitalism and the new urbanism, Regional Studies. Creativity is a concept whose time has come in economic and urban geography. It is also a…

Tailored: context-sensitive: urban policies for creative knowledge cities

The final chapter draws together the different strands of policy interventions and provides an overall conclusion for the volume. The implications from this are that new policies for sustainable…

A Strategic Political-Culture Basis for Developing the Socioeconomic Welfare of Disadvantaged Urban Communities: General Review and Policy Framework

The goal of promoting the economy and social welfare of disadvantaged urban communities has always been at the forefront of community studies; yet, this issue has also remained consistently…

Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy

Buzz: A Theory, Illustrated in Toronto and Chicago

Abstract The rise of arts and culture is transforming citizen politics. Though new to many social scientists, this is a commonplace for many policy makers. We seek to overcome this divide by joining…

Worlding Cape Town by design: Encounters with creative cityness

Considering the ongoing global proliferation of the urban ‘creativity fix’ and its inclination to further push local governments towards entrepreneurial governance logics and market-led development…

Creative cities and the reflexivity of the urban creative economy

The paper addresses the abundant literature on the creative city that has been generated following publication in 2002 of Richard Florida’s work on the creative class. In particular, it is maintained…

Arts in the city: Debates in the Journal of Urban Affairs

ABSTRACT There has been growing interest in the urban affairs literature in investigating the role of the arts in the city because of its multifaceted potential to impact a place. To document central…
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 69 REFERENCES

Urban Implications of Cultural Policy Networks: The Case of the Mount Vernon Cultural District in Baltimore

The intersection of urban and cultural policies has recently been at the center of international debate. The cultural planning approach argued that cultural policies can generally display positive…

Arts and Culture in Urban or Regional Planning: A Review and Research Agenda

Amid the buzz on the creative city and cultural economy, knowledge about what works at various urban and regional scales is sorely lacking. This article reviews the state of knowledge about arts and…

Becoming a Creative City: The Entrepreneurial Mayor, Network Politics and the Promise of an Urban Renaissance

This paper critically explores the ‘politics of becoming’ in a ‘wannabe’ creative city in the United States. It shows how, in Baltimore’s policy sphere, Richard Florida’s theory has served as an…

Creative Cities: Conceptual Issues and Policy Questions

ABSTRACT: This article represents a broad and occasionally polemical meditation on the nature and significance of creative cities. I seek to situate the concept of creative cities within the context…

Inequality and Politics in the Creative City-Region: Questions of Livability and State Strategy

City-regionalism and livability are concepts that feature prominently in recent writings on urban politics and policy. Policy discussions have seen the two concepts fused together in such a way that…

The Rise of the Creative City: Culture and Creativity in Copenhagen

Abstract Culture and creativity as drivers of development are established features of the urban policy agenda. This article examines the interplay of culture, creativity and city planning using the…

What to Make of New York's New Economy? The Politics of the Creative Field

Inner-city ensembles featuring novel mixes of culture, technology and commerce are generating synergies of production, consumption and place. Yet, this `new economy of the city' is also linked to…

From brew town to cool town: Neoliberalism and the creative city development strategy in Milwaukee

The politics of urban cultural policy: global perspectives

composed of two papers that highlight dual policies of cultural diplomacy. The first paper by Alexandros Sakellariou examines the Greek Orthodox Church’s public discourse and its implications in…

The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography of Image-Producing Industries

PART ONE: PROPAEDEUTICA Introduction to the Cultural Economy of Cities The Mainsprings of Urban Economic Performance The Creative Field and the Logic of Innovation in Image-Producing Complexes PART…
...