Organic, Planned or Both: Alserkal Avenue: An Art District by Entrepreneurial Action in an Organic Evolutionary Context

Damien Nouvel ()
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Damien Nouvel: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, ESPI - Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières

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Abstract: While Dubai's urban scene is dominated by planned and pre-designed developments, grassroots initiatives have always been present and have helped shape the trajectory of the city's evolution. In one case, an industrial area, Al Quoz, has seen the clustering of art businesses over a relatively short period turning it into a cultural destination. Accounting for most of such clustering, Alserkal Avenue became Dubai's art hot-spot that changed the cultural map of the city. This article describes the rise of Alserkal Avenue, not only as the result of the entrepreneurial action of the proprietors but also as a product of a complex melange of economic, cultural, and urban evolutionary processes that intertwine with the rise of the city itself.

Keywords: Dubai; Creative clusters; Art district; Cultural district; Evolutionary economic geography; Organic genesis of districts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-14
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Published in Built Environment, 2020, 46 (2), pp.102-118. ⟨10.2148/benv.46.2.262⟩

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DOI: 10.2148/benv.46.2.262

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