The Rise and Fall of Urban Cultural Industries: Place-bound Dynamics of Urban Cultural Industries
9th International Conference on Urban History Lyon, France, 27-30 August 2008 Within the scope of the 9th International Conference on Urban History to be held in Lyon, France on 27-30 August 2008, Mariangela Lavanga, Robert Kloosterman and Clemens Zimmermann will organize a session entitled The Rise and Fall of Urban Cultural Industries: Place-bound Dynamics of Urban Cultural Industries. A call for papers is open until November 2007. Cultural industries are increasingly considered among the most promising growth sectors. But do cultural industries develop and thrive just anywhere, or does their success depend partly on locally-specific, historical conditions, institutions and developments? Cultural industries require specialization. Comparative advantages are therefore crucial. Initial advantages can become self-reinforcing, leading to path-dependent and place-bound trajectories. Innovation is nurtured within specific place-bound environments or "industrial atmospheres", and encouraged by place-bound mechanisms. In agglomerated cultural industries complexes, regular formal and informal interaction between highly skilled producers leads to knowledge spillover and transaction costs generally are lowered. Dedicated institutions reduce overhead costs for all local producers. Highly developed local consumer tastes raise overall standards. Mechanisms such as these produce increasing returns for localities with initial advantages in a given cultural industry. Papers are invited that, from a historical, socio-economic and cultural perspective, explore: mechanisms underlying place-bound growth in cultural industries, continuities and critical junctures in the development of cultural industries, and patterns of spatial clustering and the evolution of the spatial division of labour in the cultural industries. Papers may take the form of a case study or a comparative approach involving different cities or clusters within urban areas. Interdisciplinary studies able to combine new economic- geographic insights on dynamic agglomeration economies with extensive historical work on the evolution of institutional contexts are appreciated. Contact information: Dr Mariangela Lavanga, Post-doc Researcher, Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel.: +31 (0)20 525 1493; fax: +31 (0)20 525 4051; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/ sursa:culturelink -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" skype: us.vladimir http://www.oberliht.org.md . . . . . . . . . . . http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova
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