Understanding culture-led local development: A critique of alternative theoretical explanations

Pierluigi Sacco, Guido Ferilli and Giorgio Tavano Blessi
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Pierluigi Sacco: IULM University, Italy
Giorgio Tavano Blessi: IULM University, Italy

Urban Studies, 2014, vol. 51, issue 13, 2806-2821

Abstract: In this paper we carry out a meta-analytic review of the literature on culture-led local development models. We identify and discuss three typical fallacies characterising mono-causal culture-led development schemes: instrumentalism, over-engineering, and parochialism. We then discuss their analytical background, and provide examples illustrating the consequences of each. Based upon this critical discussion, we make a case for a ‘new territorial thinking’ approach that takes into account the tangled hierarchy of global and local viewpoints that is connatural to spatially situated cultural production, and focuses upon a non-linear, multi-causal scheme as the only possible framework for the policy design of credible, socially accountable, culture-led development strategies.

Keywords: capability building; competitive restructuring; creative class; culture-led local development; urban areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098013512876

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