The geography of celebrity and glamour: Reflections on economy, culture, and desire in the city

Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth; Scott, Allen J.

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2013.01.003

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“…For the purposes of our analysis, the economic dynamics will be framed within the broader perspective of creative economies, assuming the rising importance of innovation and the integration of cultural values into the production and consumption systems in contemporary economies (Currid-Halkett & Scott, 2013). In this context, cities play a central economic role, due to the agglomeration effects related to knowledge externalities arising from the self-reinforcing concentration of creative activities in urban areas, broadly documented in the literature (see, e.g., Arribas-Bel, Kourtit, & Nijkamp, 2016), including the analysis of emergent social conflicts related to the new economic dynamics and societal transformations (see e.g., Scott, 2007;Sassen, 2010;Florida, 2017).…”

Section: Review and Methodological Frameworkmentioning

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The smart city as a common place for tourists and residents: A structural analysis of the determinants of urban attractiveness

Romão

Kourtit

Neuts

et al. 2018

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This article presents a structural modeling analysis of the performance determinants of urban attractiveness, in terms of resident population and international tourism demand, in 40 global cities. The analysis focuses on the impacts of a diverse set of innovative drivers of urban value creation and sustainable solutions for city development (urban functions), which are collectively subsumed under the heading of 'sustainable smart city'. Recognizing that the dynamics and growth processes related to these urban functions may have different impacts on different types of stakeholders, potentially leading to the emergence of serious conflicts between guests/visitors and residents, we aim to derive model-based implications for urban and tourism management in the cities concerned in order to move towards the sustainable future city as 'a place 4 all'. The results of our latent growth curve model confirm the existence of different impacts of urban functions on visitors' and residents' attractiveness. Cultural dynamics appears to be a major determinant for attracting new residents and supporting a strong international tourism industry. From an economic perspective, purely economic strength (in terms of absolute growth) appears to enhance city attractiveness for residents, while the dynamics observed in research and development activities influences the quality of employment instead of being a direct driver of population growth. While the social aspects of sustainability (framed under the concept of livability) and the urban environment typically exert higher impacts on urban attractiveness, accessibility appears mostly relevant for visitors. Our analysis suggests an uneasy balance between livability, environment, and population and visitor volume and growth.

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Section: Review and Methodological Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The smart city as a common place for tourists and residents: A structural analysis of the determinants of urban attractiveness

Romão

Kourtit

Neuts

et al. 2018

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“…The social dislocations wrought by these events are compounded by the escalating property values and the persistent shortages of affordable housing in large urban areas at the present time. Third-wave cities are to all intents and purposes locked into a modus operandi that systematically endows some portions of intra-urban space with cachet and glitter while others are condemned to marginality and decline (Currid-Halkett and Scott, 2013). Municipal authorities may offer grudging remedial measures in response to the social dislocations that are engendered by these trends, but in the absence of root-and-branch reform, the profit-driven evolution of the urban land nexus seems destined to pursue its customary logic through endless endemic predicaments and political conflicts.…”

Section: The Contradictory Logic Of Urban Redevelopmentmentioning

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Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Scott

2018

Journal of Urban Technology

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I seek to synthesize several different approaches to issues of urban land redevelopment and the built environment. The essay focuses on developments in the third and current historical wave of capitalist development. I describe the economic logic of land-use change with reference to both commercial and residential property. This logic has become intimately intertwined with global finance and this state of affairs has introduced new elements of fluidity and risk into the built environment. Issues of urban policy and the role of municipal authorities in shaping urban land markets are then considered. I describe how local government agencies increasingly pursue development projects in complex partnerships with representatives of the real-estate industry. In the second half of the paper, the overall argument is recast by reference to three important trends in regard to landredevelopment and the built environment in third-wave cities, namely, the economic and architectural renaissance of central business districts, the widespread gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods, and the emergence of a new post-suburban phase of peripheral urban expansion. KEYWORDS Built environment; financialization; land-use change; third-wave cities; urban redevelopment Urban Land and Property in Question This paper takes the form of an extended essay in which I seek to synthesize several different approaches to questions of land redevelopment and the built environment in contemporary cities. My objective is to bring these approaches into juxtaposition with one another so as to shed fresh light on the ways in which they operate, their relations to the functional structure of the city, and how they are currently reshaping patterns of urban development. A complex scientific and political question about the valuation, appropriation, and use of urban land and property emerges endemically within cities in capitalist society (Roweis and Scott, 1978). The substance of this question can be discerned within the phenomenon of the urban land nexus conceived as a mass of functionally interdependent assets such as factories, offices, houses, shopping facilities, public buildings, infrastructures, and so on, arranged in conjoint spatial patterns around a common center of gravity (Scott, 1980; Scott and Storper, 2015). Complex processes of redevelopment, piloted by intermediaries

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“…Sin embargo, estas afi rmaciones obvian que no son sólo los intermediarios los que generan distribuciones desiguales de éxito o reconocimiento, sino que los mismos patrones de consumo cultural de la ciudadanía son los que generan distribuciones próximas al esquema de repartición de ganancias winner takes all, es decir, a una concentración de los ingresos en unos pocosindividuos (Menger, 1999). Una tendencia que el mayor desarrollo de la sociedad de consumo y de los mass media, incluido internet, no parece haber disminuido sino agravado y concentrado además en aquellos segmentos del mundo cultural más ligado a los artistas-mediáticos y las celebrities (Currid-Halkett & Scott, 2013;Crane, 2009). No es por lo tanto que los intermediarios generen escasez sino que a contrario son los únicos que pueden asegurar que aquellos creadores que no han recibido la atención del gran público y los media puedan continuar creando a partir de mecanismos de reinversión de las ganancias extraídas de los autores y proyectos exitosos.…”

Section: ¿Una Destrucción Creativa Para Los Intermediarios Del Sectorunclassified

Contra el ciberutopismo. Discurso utópico "versus" análisis sociológico sobre la transición al paradigma digital de la esfera cultural

Rius-Ulldemolins

2015

Política Soc.

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The geography of celebrity and glamour: Reflections on economy, culture, and desire in the city

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

The smart city as a common place for tourists and residents: A structural analysis of the determinants of urban attractiveness

The smart city as a common place for tourists and residents: A structural analysis of the determinants of urban attractiveness

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

Contra el ciberutopismo. Discurso utópico "versus" análisis sociológico sobre la transición al paradigma digital de la esfera cultural

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