The City of Bandung: Unfolding the process of a Creative City

Aritenang, Adiwan (2012): The City of Bandung: Unfolding the process of a Creative City.

Abstract

Decentralisation in Indonesia has brought different impacts to regions following its development path dependence and institutional arrangements. This study aims to understand the role of both path dependence and institutional arrangements in the process of developing a creative city. This paper studies the city of Bandung development to unfold the system that supports its role as a creative city. The paper found that path dependency as historically centre of creative studies and emerging creative class has accelerate the city’s new economic activities.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Creative Industry; Institutions, Path Dependence, Network, Decentralisation
• Subjects: R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z11 - Economics of the Arts and Literature

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