The globalized reinvention of the creative territories: from the global to the national context

Abstract

This article discusses how the creative economy, an economic phenomenon from the end of the 20th century that uses the forces of culture linked to technology and innovation, is reconfiguring the spaces of cities. To analyze such developments in urban territories, this study will draw a historical parallel between the global and the national context, analyzing how such actions occur and configure the global dynamics of “creative territories”. In this sense, the Brazilian creative economy scenario is also problematized, from an institutional as well as a territorial point of view. Finally, the article seeks to comprehend the importance of creative economy within current discussions on the development of urban territories, particularly metropolitan ones, and to understand the perspectives and conflicts that it determines in these localities.

creative economy; territories; global trajectories; national implications