Placing production in urban cultural policy: The locational patterns of cultural industries and related manufacturing

Martin, Declan; Grodach, Carl

doi:10.1080/07352166.2020.1828904

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“…To probe business adaptations, we drew on 26 in‐depth interviews with cultural manufacturers conducted in 2018 and early 2020. We built on past research (see Grodach and Martin, 2021; Martin and Grodach, 2022) to define cultural manufacturing as industries that directly produce material consumer products with high symbolic value and/or offer specialized production services for the arts, media and design industries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, inner Melbourne is home to around 16% of the metropolitan region's cultural manufacturing jobs. Many of these enterprises cling to the remaining inner-urban industrial zones close to arts and design clusters (Martin and Grodach, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While large firms are able to combine these capabilities within their organization, cultural manufacturers tend to be small enterprises and, therefore, depend on urban agglomerations to manage risk, increase capacity and access the requisite skills and resources for particular projects (Scott, 2010; Doussard et al ., 2018). This type of production lends itself to a central location in established industrial districts with ready access to production networks, clients and social infrastructure (Curran, 2010; Gibson et al ., 2017; Wolf‐Powers et al ., 2017; Martin and Grodach, 2022). In contrast to greenfield industrial precincts, older industrial districts comprise a mix of building types suitable for shared production spaces and smaller workshops (Ferm et al ., 2021).…”

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“…These locational tendencies align closely with arts and cultural industries, which similarly value older industrial buildings for their flexibility, affordability and distinctive aesthetic (Hutton, 2008; Pollio et al ., 2021; Martin and Grodach, 2022). Spatial proximity is also driven by close client and contractor relationships across the cultural industries–manufacturing nexus, ranging from set construction for performing arts institutions (Gibson et al ., 2017) to metal fabrication for industrial designers (Hutton, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Cultural manufacturers produce material consumer products with high symbolic value (for example, furniture, clothing, jewellery and crafts) and provide specialized services to arts and creative industries (for example, specialty printing, architectural interiors, set building, event installations) (Scott, 2004; Grodach et al ., 2017). As a result of these close contractor–client relationships, this type of manufacturing tends to value similar inner‐urban locations to traditional arts and creative industries (Gibson et al ., 2017; Wolf‐Powers et al ., 2017; Martin and Grodach, 2022). Working against this, however, are a set of functional space requirements—such as zoning, buffering distances from residential uses, loading docks, noise and odour attenuation—that create additional sensitivities to land use change and property development (Curran, 2010; Sprague and Rantisi, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION IN GENTRIFYING URBAN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS: The Experience of Cultural Manufacturers in San Francisco and Melbourne

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Grodach²

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Recent urban scholarship shows how zoning and real estate dynamics shape ongoing processes of gentrification and deindustrialization. While studies demonstrate the impact of planning and property market pressures on the arts, less research has examined their effect on urban manufacturers in gentrifying industrial districts. Given the differential impact of zoning and real estate pressures, our research focuses specifically on how ‘cultural manufacturers’ negotiate changing land use patterns in gentrifying urban industrial areas in San Francisco and Melbourne. Our findings show how cultural manufacturers develop flexible workspace arrangements, business models and professional networks to negotiate urban restructuring and avoid displacement. Though innovative, these survival strategies provide limited ability to navigate structural barriers. Here, the presence of intermediary organizations can help coordinate a strategic response to industrial gentrification and indifferent planning policy. In our research we highlight the everyday practices of adaptation and collective action in an under‐researched cultural sector to provide a counterweight to macro‐scale transitional narratives. While cities have deindustrialized owing to technological and competitive pressures, to focus exclusively on this misses a range of resilience practices that have sustained manufacturers in restructuring cities.

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confidence: 99%