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The Rise and Fall of Urban Cultural Industries: Place-bound Dynamics of
Urban Cultural Industries

9th International Conference on Urban History
Lyon, France, 27-30 August 2008

Within the scope of the 9th International Conference on Urban History to
be held in Lyon, France on 27-30 August 2008, Mariangela Lavanga, Robert
Kloosterman and Clemens Zimmermann will organize a session entitled The
Rise and Fall of Urban Cultural Industries: Place-bound Dynamics of Urban
Cultural Industries. A call for papers is open until November 2007.

Cultural industries are increasingly considered among the most promising
growth sectors. But do cultural industries develop and thrive just
anywhere, or does their success depend partly on locally-specific,
historical conditions, institutions and developments? Cultural industries
require specialization. Comparative advantages are therefore crucial.
Initial advantages can become self-reinforcing, leading to path-dependent
and place-bound trajectories. Innovation is nurtured within specific
place-bound environments or "industrial atmospheres", and encouraged by
place-bound mechanisms. In agglomerated cultural industries complexes,
regular formal and informal interaction between highly skilled producers
leads to knowledge spillover and transaction costs generally are lowered.
Dedicated institutions reduce overhead costs for all local producers.
Highly developed local consumer tastes raise overall standards. Mechanisms
such as these produce increasing returns for localities with initial
advantages in a given cultural industry.

Papers are invited that, from a historical, socio-economic and cultural
perspective, explore:

mechanisms underlying place-bound growth in cultural industries,
continuities and critical junctures in the development of cultural
industries, and
patterns of spatial clustering and the evolution of the spatial division
of labour in the cultural industries.
Papers may take the form of a case study or a comparative approach
involving different cities or clusters within urban areas.
Interdisciplinary studies able to combine new economic- geographic
insights on dynamic agglomeration economies with extensive historical work
on the evolution of institutional contexts are appreciated.

Contact information: Dr Mariangela Lavanga, Post-doc Researcher, Amsterdam
institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt),
Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies,
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Universiteit van Amsterdam
(UvA), Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel.:
+31 (0)20 525 1493; fax: +31 (0)20 525 4051; e-mail: M.Lavanga la uva.nl;
http://www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/


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