Cultural Industries and Urban Development

Purpose The paper seeks to investigate the changing and challenging spatial nature of the rising knowledge cities' knowledge precincts. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the literature on recent knowledge precinct developments within the frame of innovation and urban economic competitiveness. The methodolo…

• KORAY VELİBEYOĞLU

Knowledge-based development strategies play an important role in supporting local economic development of cities in the knowledge era. This paper investigates local knowledge-based urban development policies of Brisbane, Australia in its long journey to become a competitive knowledge city. The paper examines Brisbane'…

• KORAY VELİBEYOĞLU

The article brings to light the use of recommender systems as technologies of the self, complementing the observations in current literature regarding their employment as technologies of ‘soft’ power. User practices on the music recommendation website last.fm reveal that many users do not only utilize the website to r…

• MEHMET NEDİM KARAKAYALI

The authors apply insights from critical spatial theory to explore how space can be reimagined to be more inclusive. The meaning of spaces includes (1) objective physical space, (2) subjective imagined space, and (3) lived space used by consumers. The authors discuss several cases in which different social actors (i.e…

• BİGE SAATÇİOĞLU

Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the special issue on creative cities and cultural spaces, as offering new perspectives for tourism. Design/methodology/approach The paper identifies some key concerns that cities currently face and introduces the articles in the special issue, remarking on the nove…

Over the course of economic globalization, the innovation aspect of entrepreneurship has gained critical importance in almost all sectors, including the fashion industry. The emergence of an entrepreneurial economy stimulated a new type of competition in the fashion industry and changed the face and nature of the comp…

Science and technology parks (STPs) try to facilitate networking among their tenants by (i) creating a favorable ecology for collaboration through selection of tenants and (ii) encouraging the formation of ties among these firms through events and introductions. We investigate the effect of these interventions on data…

• ÖZGE CAN

Set in the context of debates over the future of rural areas, and the role of planning in co-delivering a sustainable, inclusive and resilient countryside, this article considers the value of a place capitals perspective for unpacking, firstly, ‘what makes’ rural places and, secondly, the ways that planning can ensure…

• MENELAOS GKARTZIOS

This paper makes an original contribution to our understandings of the relational role of artistic practice as part of rural community development. Art-led initiatives are now commonplace in rural development strategies. However, the effects of art in rural community, particularly beyond economic development, have rec…

• MENELAOS GKARTZIOS

The goal of the present paper is to integrate five types of literature related to the innovation process (i.e. cluster theory, innovation systems, network relations, knowledge management, and innovation types) and apply them to the local tourism destination to build a destination innovation process model with macro an…

• DEMET BAĞIRAN ÖZŞEKER

This paper examines the role of spatial planning as a policy framework for managing rural housing within an integrated territorial development strategy. The paper focuses on the Republic of Ireland, which provides a useful case for analysing spatial planning and rural housing relationships, due to the State's recent s…

• MENELAOS GKARTZIOS

This paper aims to contribute to the gentrification literature through the potentials of assemblage thinking. We focus on gentrification in Istanbul, which represents the characteristics of both the Global South and North, and use assemblages to link together gentrification and the temporal scales of Istanbul’s urbani…

• EMİNE YETİŞKUL ŞENBİL