Cultural and creative clusters – A systematic literature review and a research agenda

Caroline Chapain and Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux ()
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Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Institut National de l'Horticulture et du Paysage

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Abstract: "Cultural/Creative Quarters/Clusters/Districts" (CCC) have become very popular local development strategies across the World in the last 30 years. This popularity has been reflected within the academic literature in Urban Planning, Geography, Economics and Cultural Studies. However, each discipline and/or authors define these concepts in their own way or borrow from one another without necessarily clearly delimiting or explaining their approaches. As such, the CCC academic field of research is quite fuzzy. In order to address this issue, this paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of the peer-reviewed academic literature included in the Scopus database using the concepts of creative or cultural clusters, districts or quarters (the most popular combination of terms found in the literature). In doing so, the paper addresses the following questions: What are cultural/creative district, cluster and quarter? When did these concepts appear? Are these concepts overlapping? Who has been writing about these? In which disciplines and in which countries? What has been the evolution in terms of conceptual understanding? What are the themes and dimensions associated with these concepts? How have they been studied and researched (methodologies)? What issues and research gap are present within this literature? How can we move the research forward?

Keywords: creative cluster; creative district; creative quarter; cultural cluster; cultural district; cultural quarter; economic development; systematic literature review; urban planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Urban Research and Practice, 2020, 13, pp.1-22. ⟨10.1080/17535069.2018.1545141⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2018.1545141

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