Creativity, Innovation and Territorial Agglomeration in Cultural Activities: The Roots of the Creative City

Feiras e mercados no Porto: velhos e novos formatos de atividade económica e animação urbana

“…Aliás, estes espaços de comércio e sociabilidade económica são matizados por dinâmicas de afirmação do-it-yourself (DIY) resultantes, na maioria das vezes, da reconfiguração profissional e artística de muitos dos seus protagonistas (Costa 2000;Costa 2008). …”

Artistic Urban Interventions, Informality and Public Sphere: Research Insights from Ephemeral Urban Appropriations on a Cultural District

“…As expressed before (e.g. Costa, 2008, Costa andLopes, 2015), the conflicts of uses verified in each of these particular spaces (e.g., between users and residents, night users and day users, traditional residents and newcomers, traditional cultural and new activities), are a unceasing dimension of its life (and even one essential dimension to certain kinds of creative activity, by its intrinsic liminal and alternative nature).…”

“…Our study in this paper refers to a specific kind of these "creative milieus", the "cultural districts" or "cultural quarters" (cf. Costa, 2008).…”

“…The wide variety of gentrified residential city enclaves, ghettos, gay villages, ethnic quarters, red light districts and creative quarters can be seen as a commonplace feature of contemporary urban landscape, which often brings vitality and vibrancy for many ancient or abandoned areas of cities, but also as an arena for frequent conflicts between residents and users, gentrifiers and traditional residents, new activities and traditional activities, night users and day users, and so on (Costa, 2007;Costa, 2008;Costa e Lopes, 2013). Public space is often the privileged sphere for these tensions and conflicts, with the expression of multiple power relations at the levels of the physical space, the experiences it provides and the symbolic field.…”

Cultural activities, innovative milieus and urban policies: a comparison of two districts in the city of Lisbon

“…Vibrant localized production systems based on the agglomeration of cultural and creative activities have been persistently emphasized in recent years by theoretical (or more conceptual) approaches and by empirical evidence and policy-making (for a systematization of this, see Costa, 2007;Costa et al, 2006). Multiple examples can be found in various fields ranging from geography or urban management to industrial economics or cultural studies if we examine academic research and policy strategies developed in the last years throughout the world.…”