Abstract
URBAN REGENERATION AND CULTURE ORIENTED URBAN STRATEGIES UNDER THE RUBRIC OF CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
The cities, which transited from a production-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, under the influence of globalization and deindustrialization in the twenty first century, try to overcome socio-economic problems via Urban Regeneration practices and use cultural and creative industries, integrating knowledge-culture-creativity concepts, to overcome these problems. Cultural and creative industries, which are described as sectors under the rubric of knowledge-culture-creativity, restructures the economy and space while they are also attract capital and investment. As a result, the cities try to emerge from the economic crisis this way. In this context, culture industries are implemented by means of cultural policies in reorganization of the urban space.
Culture-oriented policies, cultural arrangements and culture industries are believed to provide effective solutions in transition from production to knowledge-based economy and overcoming the economic crisis experienced in this process. However, these policies are considered to increase social-spatial-cultural inequality rather than providing effective solutions in the cities and helping to overcome the economic crisis.
The aim of this research is to reveal the role of culture-oriented policies in the configuration of urban space and how they affect the socio-economic structure in the space.
Keywords
Reorganization of urban space, urban regeneration, culture industries/ creative industries, culture-
