Abstract
Abstract This paper is focused on the role of cultural and creative industries in the regeneration of the inner city of Ostrava. The first part outlines the basic relationship of cultural and creative industries and urban areas in market economies, with emphasis on industrial cities. Ostrava is a post-socialist city, therefore essential characteristics of one are briefly given. The empirical part presents three case studies demonstrating the impact of cultural and creative industries on the regeneration of the inner city of Ostrava. In the conclusion, the case studies are discussed in a comparative perspective with special accent on the role of the public sector as an actor of culture-led regeneration in Ostrava.
Highlights
The role of culture and creative industries in the formation of the urban environment in developed economies is a subject of legitimate attention in both academic as well as practical discussions that are recently gaining in intensity in the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe
The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the role of cultural and creative industries, or more precisely first, core creative arts, and secondly, other core cultural industries (Throsby 2008) in the regeneration of Ostrava’s inner city through three case studies
The empirical part briefly introduces the city of Ostrava, followed by three case studies serving as reference for the demonstration of the role of culture in inner-city regeneration
Summary
The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the role of cultural and creative industries, or more precisely first, core creative arts, and secondly, other core cultural industries (Throsby 2008) in the regeneration of Ostrava’s inner city through three case studies. The first case study draws attention to the role of artists in the process of ‘spontaneous’ regeneration of a ‘social’ brownfield, the second deals with the planned cultural regeneration of the “first industrial brownfield” in the city, and the third analyses current activities during the emergence of a creative area as part of extensive regeneration of the industrial Lower Vítkovice Area. In the concluding part discussed are the identified differences or similarities between post-socialist and western cities in the significance and role of culture-led regeneration, with emphasis on urban governance. Apart from this, the authors participated in the preparation of the ECoC (European Capital of Culture) Ostrava 2015 project
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