Contemporary Production and Urban Change: The Case of Milan

Armondi, Simonetta; Bruzzese, Antonella

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“…The latter aspect is of utmost importance for this paper and drives not only the selection of the country, but also the case selection within Italy. We chose a most-different system: Mantua, a small town with a pilot project supported by Labsus (an Italian think tank working on the concept of subsidiarity), and the major city of Milan, the Italian economic engine featured in all international comparisons (Gascó et al, 2015; MIT 2017) and in the scholarly literature (Vitale, 2010; Cavenago et al ., 2016; Armondi and Bruzzese, 2017; Polizzi and Vitale, 2017). Milan is a well-known case where the municipality played an explicit governing role on these issues with no technical support from external agencies.…”

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All smoke, no fire? Sharing practices and political investment in two Italian cities

Polizzi

Bassoli

2019

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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The practice of sharing products, services, and other activities among people living in the same city has emerged as one of the most important waves of social innovation in recent years. However, the public and scientific debate have, to date, been mostly rhetoric and rarely relied on empirical evidence. A study of the role played by local institutions in governing the phenomenon is still lacking. This paper addresses the issue of the relationship between local governments and private actors in the sharing economy sector, exploiting the ‘political exchange’ approach. Departing from this governance perspective, it appraises the political exchange – and its outputs in terms of co-operation – underlying the governing structures in two Italian cases between 2014 and 2018. We thus bridge the gap between a theoretical understanding of the sharing economy and empirical cases, providing scholars with a framework to study this phenomenon which highlights the crucial impact of the political investment of public institutions.

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All smoke, no fire? Sharing practices and political investment in two Italian cities

Polizzi

Bassoli

2019

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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“…According to Montalto et al (2019, p. 63), Milan is fourth in the Top European Cultural & Creative Cities after Paris, Munich and London, primarily due to the high level of employment opportunities across the creative sectors, explicitly confirming the importance of CCWs for the city. On one side, the city enjoys international headlines as a 'creative city' (Armondi and Bruzzese, 2017) and is famous for major events (De Carlo et al, 2009), such as Milano Fashion Week and Salone del Mobile. At the same time, scholars have investigated some criticalities concerning CCWs' conditions and the city's cultural policies, especially in relation to the scarcity of institutional funds for the arts and the predominance of private initiatives in the cultural sector (Arvidsson et al, 2010;d'Ovidio and Cossu, 2017).…”

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‘Covid-19 opened the pandora box’ of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan

Tanghetti

Comunian

Dent

2022

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society

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Creative and cultural workers (CCWs) concentrate in large cities due to the livelihood opportunities they facilitate. Synchronously, cities have experienced the highest rate of Covid-19 infections. Focusing on the case study of Milan, the paper explores the criticalities of the sector and the impact of the pandemic using qualitative interviews and digital ethnography. It highlights how C-19 has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism on CCWs, illuminating their precarious working conditions but paradoxically providing time and focus for workers to collectively organise. This paper captures CCWs use of the city to make their precarious working conditions visible in response to the unsustainable demands of neoliberalism. It also engages with the need for re-futuring contemporary understanding of the creative city, questioning the value of agglomeration economies and creative city policies, especially if workers’ rights and livelihoods do not become central to the future local policy agenda.

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“…The second group of now famous Italian fashion and design brands began to emerge such as VALENTINO (born in 1960), VERSACE (born in 1978), ARMANI (born in 1975) and so on. This period was also accompanied by the regional expansion of Italian creative industries [40,41]. Therefore, the time span from 1970 to 2020 is chosen for this research.…”

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Research on Development of Global Creative Center Cities from Regional Perspective: A case study of creative industries of Milan

Shen

Zhang

2022

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With the advancement of globalization and the deepening of the interlock between cities worldwide, the research on urban culture and creative development should be expanded from single city scale to regional and urban agglomeration scale, and creative clusters will become an important spatial scale to break the bottleneck of urban development in the future. In Europe, cities such as London, Paris and Milan have developed creative industries and built creative clusters earlier and then gradually become global creative centers. However, there are few studies on the development of their creative industries from a regional perspective. This research uses multi-source data, within the scope selected based on comprehensive standards, to analysis regional development characteristics of creative industries in Milan, creative clusters formed with Milan as its core and influencing factors of the development. Through the study of a global creative center from regional perspective, references for emerging creative cities and cities that need industrial transformation can be concluded.

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Contemporary Production and Urban Change: The Case of Milan

Cited by 7 publications

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All smoke, no fire? Sharing practices and political investment in two Italian cities

All smoke, no fire? Sharing practices and political investment in two Italian cities

‘Covid-19 opened the pandora box’ of the creative city: creative and cultural workers against precarity in Milan

Research on Development of Global Creative Center Cities from Regional Perspective: A case study of creative industries of Milan

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