Urban amenities for creativity: An analysis of location drivers for photography studios in Nanjing, China

He, Jinliao; Huang, Xianjin; Xi, Guangliang

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.12.020

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“…This means that cities should be characterised by tolerance, talent, and technology (3Ts) and by cultural diversity, for new business formation, job creation, and economic growth [8,15]. However, there must be interaction between culture and the market, economy and leisure, and culture and creativity, as a crucial factor in this class's choice of location, for them to stimulate creative and cultural industries [68][69][70][71]. This environment is achieved by strategies that aim for economic growth based on partnerships/cooperation/networks [25,72] and by policies based on the creative class [8] [15], having as pillars the capacity to attract talented individuals (the creative class), urban amenities, and the quality of life offered by cities.…”

Section: Creativity In Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Rodrigues

Franco

2019

Sustainability

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This study aims to identify the indicators/indices for measuring current cities’ creative performance and the individual weight of each in that performance. To do so, a review and compilation of theoretical and empirical indices already developed was undertaken, showing culture, the creative economy, and a favourable environment as inseparable sub-dimensions of creativity. This compilation allowed the construction of a Composite Index for Creativity, using a quantitative methodology, which revealed 17 factors determining cities’ creative performance, for the evaluation of performance in the Portuguese context, which allows monitoring the degree of implementation of some of the targets of the 2020 Strategy. The results illustrate that Portugal follows the European tendency of including creativity in its strategies as an economic factor determining growth. With scientific rigour and quality, the weights of each sub-dimension studied in the Composite Index were determined, this being the study’s main contribution. Other implications for theory and practice and an agenda for future research are also presented.

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Section: Creativity In Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Rodrigues

Franco

2019

Sustainability

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“…Yet, the role of urban amenities in analyzing why land urbanization in China is faster than population urbanization has been largely overlooked. Consistent with previous studies (Glaeser, Kolko, and Saiz, 2001;He, Huang, and Xi, 2018;Zhang, Partridge, and Song, 2020), we defined urban amenities as location-specific nonmarketed attributes, such as public services, urban facilities, job opportunities, traffic conditions, and other regional specificities, which make people's life and work more convenient to a particular city. Specifically, urban amenities vary from regions to regions and have become increasingly critical in determining the attractiveness of particular areas for migrants (Zhang et al, 2020).…”

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Sustainable land urbanization, urban amenities, and population urbanization: Evidence from city‐level data in China

Zhang

Zheng

Zhou

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Social Science Quarterly

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ObjectiveWith the emergence of rapid urbanization and the increase in per capita income, migration in China has been changing from economy‐driven to amenity‐driven. We seek to investigate the relation between land urbanization, urban amenities, and population urbanization by analyzing urban amenities in the analytical framework of land urbanization and population urbanization in China.MethodsUsing panel data of 277 cities in China from 2009 to 2018, we first employ the principal component analysis to calculate urban amenities and then conduct panel threshold model regressions.ResultsLand urbanization has a positive effect on urban amenities at the individual city level, while urban amenities have a negative effect on population urbanization in both large and small–medium cities. Reforming the household registration system has effectively improved the accessibility of urban amenities for high‐skilled labors in large cities. Thus, amenities in large cities have a positive effect on the urbanization of high‐skilled labors. In contrast, amenities in small–medium cities have a threshold effect on population urbanization.ConclusionAmenities in large and small–medium cities, which are located in the same urban agglomerations, could be coordinated and improved, thus achieving a long‐term sustainable and coordinated development of land and population urbanization.

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“…Green space.. Green space has been regarded as an urban amenity mainly to attract tourists rather than creatives. However, He et al (2018) found a proximity of cultural entrepreneurs to urban parks. We therefore derived a category for natural amenities (parks, gardens, commons, etc.…”

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Locating creativity in the city using Twitter data

Reuschke

Long

Bennett

2021

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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This study applies a new methodology using the location of tweets from creatives to study where economic creativity takes place in a city. Based on a Twitter network in Brighton and Hove (United Kingdom), a creative hub, we identify freelancers and entrepreneurs in the creative industries that form the ‘core’ of the ‘creative class’ but have rarely been captured in existing spatial research. We use a comprehensive geodatabase of ‘Points-of-Interest’ and Census of Population residence and workplace locations to match tweets with types of places. Findings show that practices of economic creativity are less spatially clustered in central parts of the city and more spatially distributed across the city than studies that used business register data or cluster approaches suggested. Residential areas, which proxy for home locations, have a high incident of creative activities besides urban amenities and coworking spaces. It is concluded that local economic development should support the creation and maintenance of attractive places of social interactions across the city to foster creativity and innovation which has become even more important with the surge in homeworking due to Covid-19.

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Urban amenities for creativity: An analysis of location drivers for photography studios in Nanjing, China

Cited by 32 publications

References 51 publications

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Composite Index to Measure Cities’ Creative Performance: An Empirical Study in the Portuguese Context

Sustainable land urbanization, urban amenities, and population urbanization: Evidence from city‐level data in China

Locating creativity in the city using Twitter data

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