C. Spirou's scientific contributions

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DURING THE LAST 20 YEARS, cultural policy has become an integral part of economic and physical redevelopment strategies for many urban centers across the United States. Driven by deindustrialization, population decentralization, and globalization, many cities have turned to cultural strategies as a means to reposition themselves in a rapidly changi...

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... This constitutes an additional authoritative support to urban regeneration approaches based on cultural policies that have been playing a key role in both the United States and Europe since the eighties (Wansborough and Mageean 2000) as a strategy adopted by many cities to reconquer their leading position in the metropolitan scenario once phenomena like deindustrialization, population decentralization and globalization changed the traditional economic context (Spirou 2006). Indeed, in the new global competition among creative cities, culture is considered the crucial ingredient to obtain the success of the city (Florida 2002) because it is seen as the perfect means to ensure representation and participation of the various community groups (Gibson and Stevenson 2004). ...