TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract City governments know well that culture is a powerful tool they can use to promote local development. Those governors also know that there are different ways to pursue that process. Two main strategies considered here are: instructional strategies, which promote cultural services among local inhabitants, and instrumental strategies to promote economic development creating big cultural spaces and large events. This chapter shows the impact of cultural strategies on the attraction of creative residents (creative class), as well as on income differences among Spanish municipalities.Our main hypothesis is: in comparison with instructional strategies, instrumental strategies have a positive impact on local creativity and economic development. Using secondary data from the Spanish census, cultural strategies in a local area are analyzed, and are included in multiple regression models to test this idea.These analyses show that, first, instrumental strategies have a positive impact on creative class localization; second, these strategies have a positive impact on local income regardless of the presence of a creative class, and moreover, the impact of a creative class on local income depends on the orientation of cultural strategies. This implies that the impact of creativity on local development is contextual according to the nature of local cultural strategies.
VL  - 11
SN  - 978-1-78190-737-5, 978-1-78190-736-8/1479-3520
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-352020140000011021
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-352020140000011021
AU  - Rodríguez-García María Jesús
AU  - Mora Cristina Mateos
AU  - Navarro Yáñez Clemente J.
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Cultural Strategies, Creativity, and Local Development in Spain
T2  - Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of Citizen Participation, the Arts and Development
T3  - Research in Urban Policy
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 121
EP  - 134
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -