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Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking?

Luckman, Susan, Gibson, Chris and Lea, Tess (2009). Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking?. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography,30(1):70-85.

Document type: Journal Article

IRMA ID 75039815xPUB141
Title Mosquitoes in the mix: How transferable is creative city thinking?
Author Luckman, Susan
Gibson, Chris
Lea, Tess
Journal Name Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Publication Date 2009
Volume Number 30
Issue Number 1
ISSN 0129-7619   (check CDU catalogue open catalogue search in new window)
Scopus ID 2-s2.0-61549122724
Start Page 70
End Page 85
Total Pages 16
Place of Publication Australia, Singapore
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
HERDC Category C1 - Journal Article (DEST)
Abstract This paper contributes to recent debates about whether urban policy discourses are transferable and what is at stake in their translation. It draws on discussion of Darwin (Northwest Territory, Australia), a tropical savanna location that the local government wants to promote as a 'creative city', without quite knowing what this might require. We discuss relevant debates on research knowledge construction, the creative city and the path-dependent character of neoliberal governmental objectives. We then turn to the geographical, demographic and cultural characteristics that make Darwin a challenging and distinct context for translation of global theories of creative city rejuvenation. As well as arguing a case for more nuanced, locationally specific, analysis of the capacity of places to embrace travelling policy discourses, we suggest ways in which creative city research can be refreshed through engaging with literatures on (post)colonial urban politics and intersections with policy initiatives other than those targeted at 'creative industries'per se. We systematically outline the particular challenges that tropical cities in remote locations provide to accepted wisdom about creativity-led urban planning.
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00348.x   (check subscription with CDU E-Gateway service for CDU Staff and Students  check subscription with CDU E-Gateway in new window)
 
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