Global Creative Ecosystems

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecosystemic articulations of cultural production.  While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities all over the world 'produce culture', this volume takes a critical stance on creative ecosystems as not only places of growth and development but sustainable growth and development. As such this volume articulates a global expression of cultural production based on resilience, adaptability, risk, vulnerability, and monumental change.This volume offer a distinctive, in-depth understanding of how creative and cultural policy works in cities from around the world - not solely from academic or policy perspectives but including practitioners as well. The book aims to question and reformulate policy as it has been developed through creative industries approaches and instead offer up different examples and approaches to regional development with a focus on cultural production. The book carves a creative economy policy-oriented path of development that reflects the real world.