Urban design dimensions of creative clustering: Mix/adaptation/networks/ambivalence

Abstract

While it has long been understood that creative industries cluster within inner-city post-industrial neighbourhoods in most cities, there has been little research on the particular urban characteristics and morphologies of those neighbourhoods. To what degree and in what ways do factors such as building types, public/private interfaces, density, mix, and walkability make a difference? Why do creative clusters emerge within some specific urban morphologies and not others? This chapter is based on a series of in-depth interviews with cultural producers working in creative clusters in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, Australia. We argue for a set of synergies that we summarise as MANA: Mix, Ada..