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| A STUDY ON SPATIAL DIFFERENCE OF THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIAL ZONES IN SHANGHAI |
| CHU Jin-feng |
| Department of Geography, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China |
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Abstract shanghai, which is on the way to becoming an international metropolis, has attached great importance to its creative industry. The paper discovers the rules in the spatial agglomeration of creative industry in Shanghai, namely, three spatial distribution belts of creative industry zones as the C-shaped Belt of Creative Industry Clusters along Huangpu River and the Inner Ring Elevated Road, Creative Industry Clusters along Suzhou River, Two Creative Industry Cluster Rings in the Northeast and the Southwest of Shanghai. Then, the paper analyses three spatial effects of the agglomeration of the creative industry in Shanghai, i.e., the exemplary effect, the alongside effect and spillover effect. Finally, from its current practices, the paper draws the conclusion that there are three patterns in the spatial agglomeration of the creative industry in Shanghai, which are the self-motivated one, the government-guided one, as well as the combinated one of the self-motivated and the government-guided. The author in this paper believes that the nucleus and the principle party in each of the above-menioned three types are the creativity personnel, who are the first driving force for the agglomeration, and also add the diversity to the new economy, each of their specialties creates an uniquely cultural dimension. The government, the market, the investors, management and other sectors of the society are all driving forces for the relocation and reorganization of urban public cultural enterprises. The primary and main driving forces for the concentration of the creative industry are the major backgrounds for the spatial agglomeration that play the role of incubators. The author argues that the creative industry zone in Shanghai is the one which gathers the geographic space of the creative industry and represents the result of geographical proximity as well as historical and cultural embeddedness in space. The space difference coincides with the cutural contex of industrial development in Shanghai, and displays the law of creative industry in agglutination space.
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Received: 05 September 2008
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2009, Vol. 24 
