Rethinking Creative Cities Policy

This book is concerned with developing an understanding of the complex dimensions of cultural production, and with tackling the often weak and implied links between research, policy and urban planning. In particular, contributors are concerned with agents, protagonists and practices that appear to be somehow invisible to, or ignored, in much contemporary creative cities policy. Using British and Dutch case studies, chapters consider creative industries and policy, from the situations in provincial cities and regional economies, to those in global cities like London and Amsterdam. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.