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The GeoJournal Library Volume 98 Managing Editor:

Daniel Z. Sui, College Station, USA Founding Series Editor:

Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France

Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands

For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/6007

Lily Kong

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Justin O’Connor

Editors

Creative Economies, Creative Cities Asian-European Perspectives

Editors Lily Kong Department of Geography National University of Singapore Singapore

Justin O’Connor Queensland University of Technology Australia

ISSN 0924-5449 ISBN 978-1-4020-9948-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9949-6 DOI: 10.1007/978–1–4020–9949–6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009927463 © Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2009 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

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Introduction ................................................................................................ Justin O’Connor and Lily Kong

Part I 2

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Creative Industries Across Cultural Borders: The Case of Video Games in Asia ............................................................. Ted Tschang

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Creative Clusters

Spaces of Culture and Economy: Mapping the Cultural-Creative Cluster Landscape ............................... Hans Mommaas

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Beyond Networks and Relations: Towards Rethinking Creative Cluster Theory ........................................ Lily Kong

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The Capital Complex: Beijing’s New Creative Clusters ........................ Michael Keane

Part III 7

Creative Economy Policies

Policy Transfer and the Field of the Cultural and Creative Industries: What Can Be Learned from Europe? ........... Andy C. Pratt

Part II 4

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A Creative Class?

The European Creative Class and Regional Development: How Relevant Is Florida’s Theory for Europe? ...................................... Høgni Kalsø Hansen, Bjørn Asheim, and Jan Vang

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Getting Out of Place: The Mobile Creative Class Takes on the Local. A UK Perspective on the Creative Class ............. 121 Kate Oakley

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Asian Cities and Limits to Creative Capital Theory ........................... 135 Patrick Mok

Part IV

The Making of Creative Cities

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The Creative Industries, Governance and Economic Development: A UK Perspective .......................................... 153 Calvin Taylor

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Shanghai’s Emergence into the Global Creative Economy ................. 167 Li Wu Wei and Hua Jian

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Shanghai Moderne: Creative Economy in a Creative City? ...............