A thought on New York as the creative industry's capital city

The City: theatre, archive and museum, repository of history, collective and personal memory, a palimpsest, a stage, the dynamic space of encounters, the crossroads of global movement and migration.  Last week I talked to a researcher from New School, a New York City University. She currently researches in the field of city design (which relates to the creative industry and therefore tsomehow to art, and this is why I am writing about it) and shared some interesting thoughts with me. Forms and conceptions of city life have produced their own epistemologies--what one might call urban ways of knowing.  Today cities are increasingly determined by creative industries. This leads to the phenomenon that urban planning is less often than in former times driven by master plans, and more frequently ruled by informal planning processes. Urban design, interim utilization, appropriation and participation are the terms of the moment.

Urban gardening, community design, self-empowerment and the right to the city movement have also changed the relevance of cultural policy and the role of art and cultural management in city planning. During the next weeks I will have a closer look in NYC if I can find examples for the influence of cultural policy and management in city planning.