Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity - 9781032083537

Taylor & Francis

Regional Cultures, Economies, and CreativityInnovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond\nAuthor(s): Ariella Luyn, Eduardo Fuente\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032083537, 978-1032083537\nSynopsis\nDrawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the qualities of place.\n\nThis book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding native foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley, musicians in outback settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to clusters, cinema and the cultivation of authentic landscapes, and tensions between the representational and non-representational in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a picture of rural and regional places as more than the other of metropolitan c.