Developing a creative cluster in a postindustrial city: CIDS and Manchester
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2010
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O'Connor, J.
Gu, X.
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The Information Society, 2010; 26(2):124-136
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This article takes the establishment and demise of Manchester's Creative Industries Development Service (CIDS) as an exemplary case study for the ways in which creative industry policy has intersected with urban economic policy over the last decade. The authors argue that the creative industries required specific kinds of economic development agencies that would be able to act as "intermediaries" between the distinct languages of policymakers and "creatives." They discuss the tensions inherent in such an approach and how CIDS attempted to manage them and suggest that the main reason for the demise of the CIDS was the domination of the "economic" over the "cultural" logic, both of which are present within the creative industries policy discourse. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Link to a related website: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48097/1/48097.pdf, Open Access via Unpaywall
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Copyright 2010 Taylor & Francis