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Polycentric Urban Trajectories and Urban Cultural Economy

Cultural Industries in Dutch Cities Since 1900

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This chapter traces the urban employment trends in cultural industries in the Netherlands from 1899 onwards and argues that a historical approach is necessary to understand economic geographical patterns in this post-industrial growth sector. Longitudinal employment data for the country’s four main cities, as well as case-study information on the spatial and institutional development of separate cultural industries in the Netherlands, reveal long-term intercity hierarchies of performance and historically-rooted local specializations. The effects of historical local trajectories on the inter-urban distribution of Dutch cultural production are weighed against more volatile factors such as creative class densities. Implications for the general outlook and development of these post-industrial urban economies are then explored, whereby the connectivity of the cities in international and regional networks is taken into account. The chapter concludes with identifying the evolutionary mechanisms at work in Dutch cultural industries and the value of a historical perspective vis-à-vis other geographical approaches to the urban cultural economy. As the four examined Dutch cities are all part of the Randstad megacity region, the dynamic Dutch urban cultural economy represents an unlikely case for stable inequalities between cities based on local trajectories. Consequently, strong implications may be inferred for cultural industry dynamics in other contexts.

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Notes

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    Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964) was a Dutch architect and designer linked to the ‘De Stijl’ art movement that included painter Piet Mondriaan. His experimental furniture designs earned him world-wide acclaim.

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    Data taken from www.statline.nl, the website of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics.

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    In early modern times, Protestant refugees from Flanders and France similarly invigorated Amsterdam’s publishing industry and book trade.

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Deinema, M., Kloosterman, R. (2013). Polycentric Urban Trajectories and Urban Cultural Economy. In: Klaesson, J., Johansson, B., Karlsson, C. (eds) Metropolitan Regions. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32141-2_15

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