2009/04/16 by John Paul Catungal, Deborah Leslie, Yvonne Hii · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Engineering · #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Urban Planning and Governance #Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research #Precinct #Creative city #Tourism #Politics #Neighbourhood (mathematics) #Creative industries #Sociology #Work (physics) #Tourist attraction #Economic geography #Economy #Political science #Economic growth #Law #Creativity #Geography #Economics #Engineering
paper · doi:10.1177/0042098009103856
openalex publication_date 2009/04/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13
Creative industries are increasingly associated with employment, tourism and the attraction and retention of talent in economic development discourse. However, there is a need to foreground the interests involved in promoting the creative city and the political implications of such policies. This paper analyses new industry formation in Liberty Village—a cultural industry precinct in inner-city Toronto, Canada. The focus is on the place-making strategies at work in constructing Liberty Village. In particular, the paper explores a series of displacements associated with creative districts, focusing on three scales in particular—the level of the city, the neighbourhood and the precinct itself. An examination of these displacements foregrounds the contested nature of the creative city script.