Overview
- Deliberates over the proposed operational definition and taxonomy for the Malaysian creative city and creative economy
- Responds to the need for more Southeast Asian scholarly literature on creative city as a viable urban and regional development strategy
- Reconceptualises the definition of creative city and reclassifies the taxonomy of creative economy for Malaysia
- Focuses on Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, and Ipoh
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Creative city concepts in Malaysia
- Creative city definitions in Malaysia
- Creative city classifications in Malaysia
- Creative City Development in Malaysia
- Sustainable urban development in Malaysia
- Malaysian creative cities
- Cultural Economy in Malaysia
- Malaysia’s Creative Industries
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- urban geography and urbanism
- sustainability
About this book
This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse. The chapters are written and systematically sequenced to be all-encompassing and comprehensible to audiences both from the academic and non-academic realms. The nascency of creative city development in Malaysia has motivated the timely exploration of the viability of this strategy for selected Malaysian cities (i.e. Kuala Lumpur, George Town, Ipoh, Johor Bahru). The book also discusses the global discourse on creative city and its critiques. This is followed by an overview of Malaysia’s macrolevel socio-economic and political structures as well as national policies to frame the Malaysian creative city narrative. The case study chapters are novel, as each Malaysian city unravels its unique experiences and dissects the way the city responds to the creative city agenda amidst local nuances and idiosyncrasies.
Reviews
— Morshidi Sirat, Professor of Urban Geography, Universiti Sains Malaysia
“Ipoh is synonymous with an ideal retirement city and old town for many people. In fact, its rich history and cultural heritage lay good potential and endless possibilities for urban regeneration. This book is definitely providing a timely analysis and insightful perspective for us to understand more about this former tin mining city, and on efforts to develop it towards a creative city.”
— Tan Kar Hing, former Perak state's executive member for Tourism, Arts and Culture
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Suet Leng Khoo, Associate Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia, has been involved in research related to creative cities for ten years. She has undertaken research projects funded by the Sumitomo Foundation and also the Newton Fund. Suet Leng has published extensively on creative cities in both international and local journals.
Nicole Shu Fun Chang studied the contributions of the arts sector as part of the creative economy in local economic development for her PhD research. Her research looks into the potential of the art sector, focusing on the visual art industry as a core creative industry, in developing a creative city.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Creative City as an Urban Development Strategy
Book Subtitle: The Case of Selected Malaysian Cities
Authors: Suet Leng Khoo, Nicole Shu Fun Chang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1291-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1290-9Published: 22 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1293-0Published: 23 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1291-6Published: 21 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Economics, Sustainable Development, Urbanism, Sustainability Management