Cultural Clusters: The Implications of Cultural Assets Agglomeration for Neighborhood Revitalization

Stern, Mark J.; Seifert, Susan C

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“…These districts might get their labels and boundaries from local government, business groups, or elsewhere. Naturally, some cultural districts begin "organically" as a cluster of arts organizations and activities that lead to recognition and the subsequent formal designation of the district (Stern and Seifert 2010). On the other hand, a few begin as areas with no ongoing arts or cultural presence but use district designation to attract such a cluster.…”

Section: Introduction To Cultural Districts In the United Statesmentioning

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“…While I consider only the US experience here, Santagata (2002) provides an excellent general introduction in the global phenomenon. Cultural districts overlap and are embedded within broader notions of "cultural clusters" and "creative placemaking" discussed at length elsewhere (e.g., Stern andSeifert 2010, Markusen andGadwa 2010b). This narrower scope -US cultural districts -is empirically tractable while representing a substantial cultural trend in its own right.…”

Section: Introduction To Cultural Districts In the United Statesmentioning

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How US cultural districts reshape neighbourhoods

Noonan

2013

Cultural Trends

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Cultural districts are an increasingly popular and important element of both urban and cultural experiences in the United States. Cultural districts get invoked as a tool for revitalising neighbourhoods and regions, cultivating arts and cultural resources, and other goals. This article briefly describes the phenomenon of cultural districts in the United States, reviews some claims made about their impacts, and provides evidence of districts' effects. Neighourhood-level statistical analyses identify socioeconomic trends in neighbourhoods affected by districts. The results reflect the heterogeneity in cultural districts and in cities' experiences with them. The findings inform policies supporting creative placemaking in general and cultural districts as a system. HOW U.S. CULTURAL DISTRICTS RESHAPE NEIGHBOURHOODSIncreasingly popular and important in urban and cultural experiences, Cultural districts serve purposes like revitalising communities, sustainable economic development, and cultivating arts and cultural resources (Brooks and Kushner 2001). The wave of cultural districts has kept far ahead of objective analysis of their effectiveness and sustainability. This article reviews some claims made about districts' impacts and provides more comprehensive and robust evidence of whether cultural districts tend to live up to the hype. In particular, demographic trends of neighbourhood in and near districts are compared before and after districts' formation. The results are mixed, like cities' experiences with districts. The findings point to consistent relationships in some cases (e.g., income and employment growth) and, importantly, the absence of relationships in others (e.g., gentrification). The analysis also highlights key challenges for future empirical research.

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Section: Introduction To Cultural Districts In the United Statesmentioning

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Section: Introduction To Cultural Districts In the United Statesmentioning

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How US cultural districts reshape neighbourhoods

Noonan

2013

Cultural Trends

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“…Although much has been written of the rise of cultural districts and creative/culture-led gentrification, the research in this area has heretofore been primarily qualitative or limited to specific case studies (e.g., Catungal et al, 2009;Gotham, 2005;Ley, 2003;Stern & Seifert, 2010;Tremblay & Battaglia, 2012;Zimmerman, 2008;Zukin & Braslow, 2011). Though other studies have examined neighbourhood change across multiple cities (Farrell & Lee, 2011;Wei & Knox, 2013), the broad scope of their analyses, generally involving a wide range of neighbourhood typologies, has yet precluded a detailed discussion of CCDs specifically.…”

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Neighbourhood change among creative–cultural districts in mid-sized US metropolitan areas, 2000–10

Bereitschaft

2014

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Cities across the United States are experiencing a surge in urban residential development, particularly within the downtown core and other centrally located, historic, mixed-use urban neighbourhoods. Often situated in former warehouse districts or other 'marginal' areas, many of these neighbourhoods have been revalorized and reinvented as hubs of creative-cultural production and consumption. Through an examination of 102 US neighbourhoods in 70 mid-sized metropolitan areas, this article explores patterns in the physical form, geography, and recent demographic and socio-economic evolution of the 'creative-cultural district' (CCD). The results of this exploratory analysis suggest that over the previous decade (2000-10), the majority of CCDs attracted high-skill, high-wage creative-knowledge workers at a rate faster than their respective metropolitan areas. This 'creative gentrification' was also evident in rising residential populations, household income, education and rent. Rent increased faster than income in over half the surveyed neighbourhoods, suggesting that a widening deficit in affordable housing has accompanied growing consumer demand for vibrant urban neighbourhoods and associated arts/cultural/entertainment amenities.Keywords: cultural district; creative class; creative city; neighbourhood change; gentrification; creative gentrification Introduction While dynamic, creative-cultural or 'neo-bohemian' (Lloyd, 2002) urban neighbourhoods have thrived for decades in the United States' premier world cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, the scope of their recent success and popularity in cities across the country, as well as their propensity to attract a sizable residential population, is unprecedented in recent times. Although the issues of displacement, inequity and homogenization associated with gentrification continue to present considerable challenges, the revitalization of urban neighbourhoods may represent the stirrings of a significant and broadly supported turnaround in the economic fate of many US cities. This may be particularly true of mid-sized US metropolitan areas (roughly those with populations between 300,000 and 3.5 million), many of which still struggle to maintain healthy, liveable and relevant urban centres. This article explores the creative-cultural district (CCD) as it exists in the United States, building upon and extending previous examinations of creative-cultural neighbourhoods (Evans, 2009;Lloyd, 2002;McCarthy, 2005; Montgomery, 2003) and investigating the physical form, Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2014 Vol. 1, No. 1, 158-183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2014 geography, and recent demographic and socio-economic shifts among a large (N = 102) and diverse sample of urban neighbourhoods.CCDs may be described as centrally located, and often historic, urban neighbourhoods that serve as nodes of creative-cultural production and consumption (e.g., recording studios and music venues, art studios and galleries, live theatre, dining and retail, ...

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“…cultural-led urban regeneration refers to the territorial impact of different cultural activities (radu 2013) organised by cities at individual level or through developing cultural clusters (Stern & Seifert 2010). The creation of cultural clusters is employed as an alternative source of urban development (MoMMaaS 2004) through innovation and creativity (porter 1995, 1998, quoted by Stern & Seifert 2010.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous research studies underline that cultural re-use contributes significantly to urban regeneration (Bianchini et al 1988;Gdaniec 2000;MoMMaaS 2004;evanS 2005;van de BorG & ruSSo 2005;SMidt-JenSen 2007;hoMadovSKi 2009;Stern & Seifert 2010;antal & antal 2014;cercleux et al 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%