Medium and small cities, culture and the economy of culture. A review of the approach to the case of Spain in light of international scientific scholarship
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UAM. Departamento de GeografíaPublisher
MDPIDate
2020-09-07Citation
10.3390/su12187321
Sustainability 12.18 (2020): 7321
ISSN
2071-1050 (online)DOI
10.3390/su12187321Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187321Subjects
cultural industries; creative industries; culture; small and medium-sized cities; Spain; GeografíaRights
© The Author(s) 2020Abstract
While most published studies on the economy of culture present a clear bias in favor of
large cities, a significant international bibliography has emerged in recent years that privileges the
perspective of medium and small cities. Unfortunately, the case of Spain has been largely overlooked
by these analyses; this text is intended to remedy that oversight. To that end, a bibliographic
compilation has been undertaken of studies on the cultural economy and cultural development in
small and medium Spanish cities, providing a review of the specific literature as contrasted with the
international literature. The main conclusions indicate that the Spanish case is similar to that of other
western countries. Thus, clear confirmation is found that the effects of agglomeration economies
and the so-called metropolitan bias also prevail in Spain, together with dispersion patterns that,
to a certain extent, favor particular small and medium cities. Furthermore, even though the literature
on the use of culture for urban renewal is abundant, the same cannot be said for the economics of
culture, where considerable research gaps persist, both in the geographical coverage of case studies
and in the social or labor impacts of this economic model
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Google Scholar:Barrado Timón, Diego Antonio
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Palacios García, Antonio Jesús
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Hidalgo Giralt, Carmen
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