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Culture, creativity and commerce: trajectories and tensions in the case of Beijing's 798 Art Zone

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  • John McCarthy
  • Yan Wang

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The use of cultural and creative clusters to achieve a range of regeneration outcomes is now common practice in cities world-wide. However, clear evidence is lacking on the potential sustainable benefits of such approaches, particularly where they would appear to be based on planning for the primacy of short-term economic aims often linked primarily to consumption-based uses. The case of Beijing's 798 Art Zone is illustrative of a creative cluster which has achieved major outcomes in terms of city branding and tourism, but which has also suffered from the dilution of creative production activity and related effects of gentrification. This provides lessons for other cultural clusters in China and beyond.

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  • John McCarthy & Yan Wang, 2016. "Culture, creativity and commerce: trajectories and tensions in the case of Beijing's 798 Art Zone," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 1-15, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:21:y:2016:i:1:p:1-15
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2015.1114446
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    1. Boyu Lin & Woojin Lee & Qiuju Wang, 2023. "Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism Gentrification in Traditional Industrial Areas Using Q Methodology," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(22), pages 1-19, November.
    2. Goh, Sandra & Ryan, Chris & Faisal, Abrar & Qi, Hongxia, 2022. "Mega events, disruptions, and arts entrepreneurs: Reconceptualising the creative transformation of urban spaces," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    3. Robin Visser, 2019. "Posthuman policies for creative, smart, eco-cities? Case studies from China," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 51(1), pages 206-225, February.
    4. Basile Michel, 2021. "Art, creativity, and tourism in creative quarters: trajectory and tensions of the cultural scene of the M50 art district in Shanghai [Arte, creatividad y turismo en los barrios creativos: trayector," Post-Print halshs-03365182, HAL.
    5. Wu, Mao-Ying & Tong, Yixuan & Wall, Geoffrey & Ying, Tianyu, 2021. "Cultural production and transmission in museums: A social practice perspective," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).

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