Print Email Facebook Twitter Creative city development in the Lisbon strategy: Evidence from Dutch ERDF allocation Title Creative city development in the Lisbon strategy: Evidence from Dutch ERDF allocation Author Trip, J.J. Faculty OTB Research Institute Department Urban studies Date 2009-12-31 Abstract Creativity is considered a main factor of urban competitiveness nowadays. However, while local policies increasingly reflect the ideas of Richard Florida, Charles Landry and others, the influence of the creative city concept on higher level policies is not clear. The paper takes this issue to the European Union’s Lisbon strategy, intended to make Europe the most competitive economy by 2010. It addresses the questions to what extent the main characteristics of the creative city are part of the Lisbon objectives, and to what extent they are reflected by structural funds allocation. The first is analysed by confronting the objectives formulated in EU policy documents with the key elements of creative city development; the latter by means of a case study of the allocation of Dutch European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) expenditure in the 2007-2013 period. Subject Lisbon strategystructural fundscreative cityinnovationthe Netherlands To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:91a1acf5-3cd4-43e6-b92b-ccf1901db021 Publisher Universidad Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid Source City Futures '09, 4-6 June 2009, Madrid Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2009 Trip, J.J. Files PDF 234575.pdf 118.95 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:91a1acf5-3cd4-43e6-b92b-ccf1901db021/datastream/OBJ/view