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

• Autores: Pierluigi Sacco, Guido Ferilli, Giorgio Tavano Blessi
• Localización: Urban Studies, ISSN-e 1360-063X, Vol. 51, Nº. 13, 2014, págs. 2806-2821
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.