This article acts as an introduction to the special issue on creative cities policy. We begin the article with a discussion of recent critical accounts of cultural/creative industries and creative cities policy, arguing that the failure of policies to fully understand the often hidden...

Recording studios are distinctive spaces in which artists are encouraged to expose their emotional selves in intimate moments of musical creativity and performance. In this paper we focus on how music producers and recording engineers perform emotional labour as part of the <i>performative...</i>

This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.

Contents: Prologue: The global city: enabling economic intermediation and bearing its costs / Saskia Sassen -- 1. Agency and practice in the making of global cities: towards a renewed research agenda / Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson -- 2. Producer service firms as global...