In Defense of Old Industrial Spaces: Manufacturing, Creativity and Innovation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Curran, Winifred

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00915.x

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“…Local governments often argue that the land use shift supports a changing, 'postindustrial' economy. However, Australian, UK, and US research demonstrates that in some cases the loss of manufacturing from central cities is due less to deindustrialization than to a failure to preserve industrial lands and regulate encroaching development (Curran, 2010;Ferm, 2016;Shaw, 2015;Wolf-Powers, 2005). This pushes many manufacturers out of central city areas while serving to justify the upzoning of industrial properties in favor of high-density residential property and 'mixed use' development.…”

Section: Land Use Zoning and Cultural Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy

Grodach

O’Connor

Gibson

2017

City, Culture and Society

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Urban policy-makers have largely treated the cultural economy as either an appendage of a larger creative or knowledge-based economy or as a means of enhancing consumption. The result has been a focus on programs to attract highly educated and skilled professionals often at the expense of attention to workforce inequality, manual workers and skills, gentrification, and the displacement of small, independent manufacturing businesses. In the context of growing labour market inequality and deepening urban cultural schisms, this paper seeks to redirect urban and cultural policy toward a more progressive research and policy agenda centered on material cultural production. Our point of departure is to focus on the nascent intersection between the cultural economy and small manufacturing. This paper first provides a brief summary of the current approaches to urban policy and the cultural economy and the factors that have shaped policy decisions. Next, we discuss emerging attention around an alternative urban cultural policy agenda geared toward the cultural industries, small manufacturing, and craft-based production. Finally, we explore the relationships among cultural industries and small manufacturers and discuss the key research gaps and policy issues that will affect relationships and development oriented to cultural production and manufacturing at the city-region level.

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Section: Land Use Zoning and Cultural Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy

Grodach

O’Connor

Gibson

2017

City, Culture and Society

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“…As noted above, the economic contribution of the new cultural economy to cities has changed in recent years. It is this new tension, and its economic implications that the over emphasis on both 'cultural' and the relative neglect of displacement of economic uses by high end residential developments, that needs more attention (for indicative studies see Curran 2004, Hutton, Catungal et al 2009, Curran 2010, Yoon and Currid-Halkett 2014.…”

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“…To embrace the transformations wrought by the emergent cultural economy I want to argue that these debates need to be extended further. I will re-inforce a relatively neglected aspect of this new trend to include not just residential to residential 'upgrading' (classic gentrification), but also including transitions such as manufacturing to residential, manufacturing to cultural work, and cultural work to residential uses (see Zukin, Trujillo et al 2009, Curran 2010, Yoon and Currid-Halkett 2014, Hubbard 2016, Kim 2016. Displacement of less powerful actors by more powerful actors characterises these transitions, moreover it presages a cultural change, not simply one of consumption and identity (as already discussed in the gentrification literature), but also one of cultural production and cultural value(s) (Jung, Lee et al 2015, Grodach, Foster et al 2016.…”

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Gentrification, artists and the cultural economy

Pratt

2018

Handbook of Gentrification Studies

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“…Craft businesses often value the aura of making that historic industrial buildings exude. A gritty, industrial image lends authenticity to craft‐based manufacturers by recalling images of a time when production was a more central aspect of the urban landscape, and by offering hope for a productive, yet alternative, future (Curran, ; Dawkins, ; Mathews & Picton, ).…”

Section: Geographies Of Craft‐based Manufacturing In the Third Wavementioning

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The contemporary geographies of craft‐based manufacturing

Miller

2017

Geography Compass

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This paper reviews the literature on craft production to explore the ways in which the normative landscape of craft is affecting the contemporary geographies of craft‐based manufacturing. Craft forms of production have enjoyed a revival in recent decades in what is now called the “third‐wave” craft movement. In this paper, I consider the origins and characteristics of third‐wave craft as well as its historical precedents. I highlight 3 distinct geographies associated with contemporary craft‐based manufacturing, including a fusion of industrial and cultural production in industrial workspaces, a relocalization of small‐scale industrial production in advanced economies, and a tendency towards spatial agglomeration in both urban and rural areas. Drawing on the case of the American craft‐brewing sector, I offer a picture of these distinct geographies in a representative manufacturing industry and highlight the need to consider the ways in which craft production and articulations of its values manifest differently in different industries. Finally, I conclude by offering reflections on the landscape of craft‐based manufacturing and potential avenues for future geographical engagements with craft production.

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In Defense of Old Industrial Spaces: Manufacturing, Creativity and Innovation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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Cited by 56 publications

References 40 publications

Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy

Manufacturing and cultural production: Towards a progressive policy agenda for the cultural economy

Gentrification, artists and the cultural economy

The contemporary geographies of craft‐based manufacturing

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