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Understanding culture-led local development: A critique of alternative theoretical explanations

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  • Pierluigi Sacco

    (IULM University, Italy)

  • Guido Ferilli

    (IULM University, Italy)

  • Giorgio Tavano Blessi

    (IULM University, Italy)

Abstract

In this paper we carry out a meta-analytic review of the literature on culture-led local development models. We identify and discuss three typical fallacies characterising mono-causal culture-led development schemes: instrumentalism, over-engineering, and parochialism. We then discuss their analytical background, and provide examples illustrating the consequences of each. Based upon this critical discussion, we make a case for a ‘new territorial thinking’ approach that takes into account the tangled hierarchy of global and local viewpoints that is connatural to spatially situated cultural production, and focuses upon a non-linear, multi-causal scheme as the only possible framework for the policy design of credible, socially accountable, culture-led development strategies.

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  • Pierluigi Sacco & Guido Ferilli & Giorgio Tavano Blessi, 2014. "Understanding culture-led local development: A critique of alternative theoretical explanations," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(13), pages 2806-2821, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:51:y:2014:i:13:p:2806-2821
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098013512876
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