Seeing the Outer Suburbs: Addressing the Urban Bias in Creative Place Thinking

Christy Collis, Simon Freebody and Terry Flew

Regional Studies, 2013, vol. 47, issue 2, 148-160

Abstract: Collis C., Freebody S. and Flew T. Seeing the outer suburbs: addressing the urban bias in creative place thinking, Regional Studies . This paper draws upon quantitative and qualitative research into Australian cities to question the assumption that creative industries workers inherently seek to cluster in inner-urban areas. It challenges this foundational assumption by combining a critical application of the location quotient analysis of major Australian cities with qualitative research drawn from interviews with creative workers based in suburban Melbourne and Brisbane. The findings provide analyses as to why many creative industries workers prefer to locate themselves in outer suburban places. There is also discussion of the implications of these findings for future work on the cultural geography and policies of creative industries.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.630315

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