Cultural industries and the environment: towards a sustainable knowledge economy
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2010
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Luckman, S.
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Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference, 2010, pp.335-346
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10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference (7 Feb 2010 - 10 Feb 2010 : Melbourne, Australia)
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This paper draws upon findings.from a 3 year creative industries study-'Creative Tropical City '-to examine the enabling role played by the natural environment in terms of local creativity. In so doing, it challenges creative cities orthodoxy, as represented by high profile figures such as Richard Florida, which tends to focus on large, densely-populated post-industrial urban centres of the global North. Darwin reminds us that there is a lot more to creativity than critical mass, dense networks and global companies. Using the centrality of Darwin's climate to the lifestyles of the creative practitioners interviewed by this study as its starting point, this paper offers some possible wcrys out of the frequently unsustainable urban planning cul de sacs to be found by uncritically following a user-friendly simplified model of the creative cities script. Three key axis of sustainability will be addressed: seasonality, the environment, and work/life balance for knowledge workers in the new economy; the role of creative industries, and architecture in particular, in minimising energy consumption in the built environment; and, the survival of unique creative urban landscapes in a globalised, post-Richard Florida world.
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Copyright Susan Luckman 2010