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Kiel is a special case in terms of cultural policy: Unlike in most other medium-sized German cities, cultural policy has become highly relevant and is linked with the idea of positioning Kiel as an "creative city". There seems to be an unanimity that the city of Kiel as a whole has a great deal of potential for creativity, which, however, has not yet been exhausted. The following text gives an overview and tries to find out where this unique position of Kiel comes from. It has identified the strategic decision to apply a creative city approach, while focusing on creative industries as a milestone, taking a wider approach to the creative city, increasingly fostering citizen driven initiative. Explanatory approaches are offered by the political integration into a multi-level system, the socio-cultural character of the city, as well as the influence of the institutes of higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a phenomenological and hermeneutic approach, the main goal of this paper is to analyze the productive effects since the arrival of the creative class to the pericentral neighborhood of La Floresta (Quito), a social group consolidated in the area during the Revolución Ciudadana administration (2007-2015). In the first part, a bibliographic review is carried out regarding the gentrification produced by artists, students, or the new middle class in general; and the peculiarities are presented of the constitution of the middle-class in Ecuador. In the second part, the results of the research are exposed, based on the analysis of census indicators, stakeholder interviews and a direct observation of land uses and its practices. It is concluded that the intensification of economic and social flows in the neighborhood supposes the constitution of La Floresta as a cultural centrality. A revaluation process that ends up triggering the displacement of the "social preservationists" and the consolidation of a "new creative class". From a multiscale approach, it warns about a possible revaluation process in the areas surrounding the cultural centrality, a cascade effect that could generate new gentrification effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The general aim of this article is to characterize the existence of a commercial gentrification process in the Orzán neighbourhood, one of the four that make up the historic centre of the city of A Coruña (Spain). On the one hand, the structural process of physical degradation of the neighbourhood has reconfigured its brand image by attracting new alternative and underground business models. On the other hand, it is suggested that the growing weight of the creative class in the city, nourished by the success of global multinationals such as Inditex, demands and sustains this new type of commerce according to its aesthetic preferences of consumption and entertainment, thus providing a new commercial functionality to the Orzán. A n ethnographic approach is carried out to analyse the material degradation of the neighbourhood and the transformation of its commercial fabric complemented with the exploitation of various secondary sources and the use of the historical viewer of the Google Street Viewer. In addition, a measurement of the creative class is developed based on the variable “job” and on different spatial scales by applying four indicators constructed from different interpretations of the concept of the creative class in the Spanish context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows how concepts such as civilizational process and figuration, both within the sociological theory of Norbert Elias, can be used to analyze the rising of new young professional elites in late capitalism. Our main interest in Elias's notion of "sport curialization" led us to consider, both epistemologically and theoretically, the social construction of prestige among members of the "creative class". This perspective also allowed us to analyze the theoretical richness of "double bind" relationships between citizens/outsiders which are useful to conceptualize the social link among young professionals hypermodern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In spite of critics received, the creative class concept is nowadays a central topic in the literature on territorial development. After a critical review of this concept, a proposal to measurement that concept in Spanish municipals is made using the data available to do this task (Census of Population, 2001). Using simpie descriptive analysis, concentration and presence levels among municipalities are showed regarding their size and metropolitan areas membership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growth dynamics in contemporary cities and their territorial organization are subject to the influence of economic activities associated with creative industries. In this research, we perform a spatial analysis of such creative industries across all metropolitan areas of Mexico during the period. In order to show the spatial relevance that creative industries have over the urban structure, we calculate the employment concentration of each of the sectors and subsectors with respect to the distance from the closest metropolitan area's Central Business District. We conclude that creative industries tend to localize close to the Metropolitan Areas' CBD and they are the ones with greater capacity to generate positive externalities on employment growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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