Creating value, valuing creativity -- Conceptualising the cultural industries/cultural capitals -- The emergence of cultural capitals -- Glasgow: cultural tourism and design -- Bilbao: the Guggenheim and the post-modern city of spectacle -- Singapore: post-colonial city of cultural heritage and performance -- Geelong as a cultural capital? Down under echoes -- Cultural capitals: re-valuing the arts, re-making sustainable city spaces.
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This work is about the power of the arts to enhance city images, urban economies & communities. Anchored in academic discussion of the cultural industries, it offers a series of case studies drawn from five countries - Australia, Singapore, Spain, UK, US - to support an argument for the arts contributing to sustainable urban regeneration.