Developing the fashion industry in Africa: The case of Johannesburg

Rogerson, Christian M.

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“…Fashion and jewellery design based in the Northern suburbs, Randburg and Sandton often takes place at home-based studios. As part of regenerating the inner-city there is a planned fashion district in which young designers and associated retail outlets cluster in the eastern part of Johannesburg central businesses district (Rogerson, 2004;2006b). Of note also is that the private sector inner-city redevelopment area around Maboneng precinct and its surrounding suburbs of Jeppestown and Doornfontein have studio spaces where fashion design also takes place (Gregory, 2016).…”

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“…In common with the international experience, government policy makers in South Africa -both at national level and city scale -have embraced enthusiastically the concept of creative industries since 2000 and explored policy options for their encouragement (Gregory, Rogerson, 2016). Correspondingly, the growth of an economy of creative industries in South Africa attracted some research attention with the appearance of a number of useful contributions variously around film and television (Visser, 2014;Collins, Snowball, 2015;Collins et al, 2016;Snowball, 2016), new media (Booyens et al, 2013), creative tourism (Rogerson, 2006a;Booyens, Rogerson, 2015), fashion (Rogerson, 2006b) and the craft sector (Rogerson, 2000;Rogerson, Sithole, 2001;Rogerson, Rogerson, 2010;2011). In addition, the urban policy challenges for developing creative industries have come under scrutiny in both the inner-cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg (Booyens, 2012;Booyens et al, 2013;Booyens, Rogerson, 2015;Gregory, Rogerson, 2016).…”

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Suburban creativity: The geography of creative industriesin Johannesburg

Gregory

Rogerson

2018

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Creativity is an increasing scholarly focus for urban and economic geographers. The aim in this paper is to contribute to what is so far mainly a Northern literature around the locational characteristics of creative industries. The results are analysed from a comprehensive audit undertaken of creative industries in Johannesburg, South Africa’s leading economic hub. In common with certain other investigations of creative industries the largest component of enterprises in Johannesburg is creative services involving the production of goods or services for functional purposes. An aggregate picture emerges of the geography of creative industries in Johannesburg as strongly focused in suburban areas rather than the inner-city and its fringe areas. Nevertheless, certain differences are observed across the eight categories of creative industries. The evidence concerning the spatial distribution of creative industries in Johannesburg provides a further case for re-positioning the suburbs in post-Fordist debates around creative city economies and for re-examining neo-liberal cultural policies that preference inner-city areas.

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Suburban creativity: The geography of creative industriesin Johannesburg

Gregory

Rogerson

2018

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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“…2007). Similarly in South Africa, the local state has supported the development of a fashion district in Johannesburg, while dedicated fashion‐related institutions, design incubators, trade journals, training institutions, trade shows and the South Africa Fashion Week have been established to promote a distinctive fashion identity and local designers (Rogerson, 2006; Harvey, 2011). The city of Toronto has allocated significant resources to the growth and development of its fashion cluster capable of contributing to its creative economy through investment in fashion incubators and a national fashion design council, trade shows and events such as the World Mastercard Fashion Week, and design schools (Leslie and Brail, 2011; Leslie et al ., 2014).…”

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Urban Fashion Formations in the Twenty‐First Century: Weberian Ideal Types as a Heuristic Device to Unravel the Fashion City

Casadei¹,

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Lazzeretti³

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In recent years, local governments and academic researchers have drawn increasing attention to the idea of the fashion city as a strategic factor for urban economic growth. In addition to renowned fashion capitals, second‐tier cities of fashion have proliferated, giving rise to a large heterogeneity of centres of production, design, consumption and culture. Despite its rising popularity, however, the concept of the fashion city is still weakly codified, and only simplistic tool‐kit strategies have been adopted to transform cities into contemporary fashion hubs. Drawing upon Weber's ideal‐type approach, this intervention develops an analytical framework for thinking about the diverse nature of fashion's relation with cities. The search for the elusive singular fashion city is replaced by three ideal types—the ‘manufacturing fashion city’, the ‘design fashion city’ and the ‘symbolic fashion city’—which can be used as a heuristic device to trigger debate about the distinctive characteristics of fashion centres and speculate about future developmental pathways. The essay stimulates critical reflection on the different kinds of positioning that fashion takes in urban economies and the developmental pathways of different forms of fashion city formations.

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“…In addition, policy efforts to reinvigorate, reinvent, and revive the inner city, including through the use of fashion districts, creative industries, and tourist facilities, are parallel research themes associated with the polarized character of urban development (Dirsuweit, 1999;C. M. Rogerson, 2004b; C. M. Rogerson & Kaplan, 2005; C. M. Rogerson, 2006;Murray, 2011).…”

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Johannesburg 2030

Rogerson

2014

American Behavioral Scientist

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Despite Johannesburg’s importance in urban Africa, the city is relatively neglected by urban researchers. Within the global network of cities, Johannesburg assumes a critical role of linking city and articulating the development of the capitalist economy of Southern Africa. Johannesburg’s future will be associated with addressing the multiple challenges of urban growth, management, and absorption. Arguably, the most important single challenge is that of achieving sustained economic growth as well as the creation of new employment and livelihood opportunities for the city’s growing population. Johannesburg’s economic prospects are inseparable from those of South Africa as a whole. Over the past 5 years, in response to the global crisis, the national government has launched a number of long-term development plans that seek to unlock South Africa’s economic constraints in the form of the New Growth Path, initiatives for reindustrialization, and the National Development Plan 2030. It is contended that the economic contours of Johannesburg 2030, to a large extent, will be determined by its role as linking city and by the impacts of these large-scale strategic policy interventions as mediated through metropolitan-level policy.

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Developing the fashion industry in Africa: The case of Johannesburg

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Suburban creativity: The geography of creative industriesin Johannesburg

Suburban creativity: The geography of creative industriesin Johannesburg

Urban Fashion Formations in the Twenty‐First Century: Weberian Ideal Types as a Heuristic Device to Unravel the Fashion City

Johannesburg 2030

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