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Creative Cities and Sustainable Development: A Framework

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Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

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Creative cities can be accelerators of a creative economy, if these cities understand how to maximise the potential of a creative city designation as a strategic policy and organising device for sustainable development. This chapter presents a framework for how to align a creative city designation with local economic development planning. The chapter is a self-reflection based on working with policy makers around the world developing strategy, especially in sustainable economic development with cultural and creative industries. It discusses the increasing contributions of China to the 2005 UNESCO Convention, particularly the UNESCO creative cities program.

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Notes

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    https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/home.

  2. 2.

    https://en.unesco.org/creativity/convention.

  3. 3.

    https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000127160.

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    https://www.sdgfund.org/universality-and-sdgs and https://en.unesco.org/creativity/sites/creativity/files/sdg-infographic.jpg.

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    http://www.china.org.cn/english/2006/Sep/181028.htm.

  6. 6.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-and-israel-officially-withdraw-from-unesco.

  7. 7.

    http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/images/FinalHangzhouDeclaration20130517.pdf.

  8. 8.

    https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000246291.

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  1. Creative Economy Pty Ltd, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Helene George

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  1. School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Caulfield East, VIC, Australia

    Xin Gu

  2. School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Michael Kho Lim

  3. School of Creative Industries, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Justin O’Connor

  4. Department of Cultural Industry and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

    Justin O’Connor

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George, H. (2020). Creative Cities and Sustainable Development: A Framework. In: Gu, X., Lim, M.K., O’Connor, J. (eds) Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46291-8_18

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