A local and territorial approach to the operation of the culture economy in medium and small cities: case study of the Spanish cities of Merida and Cuenca

Antonio Barrado-Timon, Diego ; Escalona-Orcao, Ana, I (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Hidalgo-Giralt, Carmen ; Vazquez-Varela, Carmen ; Cea-D''Ancona, Francisca

Resumen: The chief objective of this research is to analyze the weight that several factors linked to territory and/or urban society (such as proximity, heritage, image, or infrastructures) exert in the development and operation of cultural clusters in small and medium-sized cities. To this end, a local territorial approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods has been undertaken and applied to the Spanish cities of Merida and Cuenca. The results from this case study show that many parameters observed in the international bibliography that form part of the idiosyncrasy of medium and small cities (''closeness'', possibility of face-to-face contact, quality of life, low production costs) are considered by selected interviewees as essential to understanding the operation of their organizations and the urban cultural economic cluster as a whole. In general, these parameters appear in the international bibliography as contributing to the development of the cultural economy, but their importance in medium and small cities had been tested only rarely.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.21138/bage.3185

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles 92 (2022), [40 pp]
ISSN: 0212-9426

Factor impacto JCR: 1.0 (2022)

Categ. JCR: GEOGRAPHY rank: 75 / 86 = 0.872 (2022) - Q4 - T3

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 2.3 - Environmental Science (Q3) - Earth and Planetary Sciences (Q3) - Social Sciences (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.364 - Earth-Surface Processes (Q2) - Urban Studies (Q2) - Geography, Planning and Development (Q2) - Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (Q3)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CSO2017-83603-C2-1-R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CSO2017-83603-C2-2-R

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Geografía Humana (Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ.)

Dataset asociado: Indicadores y Fuentes Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor 2022 ( https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14720923)