Connecting Arts and Place by Eleonora Redaelli

Author:Eleonora Redaelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030053390
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Considered together, art and design have a share of 50.9% of the total number of creative industries . However, Yum argues that they do not represent a specific specialization and that the strength of Miami is in its diversity of creative industries. A healthy variety of creative industries is beneficial for creating a vibrant ecosystem and has a positive effect on the overall urban economy. “If a region has higher diversity , that region is more stable from specific industries’ fluctuation by diffusing risks ” (Yum, 2016, p. 139). For instance, the film industry was previously booming in Miami. If the city had depended primarily on the film industry, that industry’s current state of decline would have jeopardized the entire economy. Instead, Miami’s strong art and design creative industries now keep the economy vibrant.

After collecting and reporting the number of industries and workers and amount of sales, Yum’s (2016) study also analyzes the spatial pattern of the creative industries and their clustering effect within the Miami MSA. The findings reveal that creative industries are mostly clustered in Miami and they are not diffused across the overall MSA. These findings prompted me to investigate whether the city is involved in the development of this cluster. I noticed that the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs has not yet included the concept of creative industries in their programming or policy activities and there is no consideration of the creative industries—or even the arts in general—in the city’s overall master plan . Nevertheless, the city’s government has created several incentives for the betterment of the area that have had a positive effect on the creative industries . “Miami is also spending another $6 million in improvements, including wider sidewalks and a new water main in the area which is now known as the Media and Entertainment District. There is already a performing arts centre in the area; it paid $3.1 million to acquire the land for the studio from the local school district ” (Yum, 2016, p. 134). Moreover, in 2015, Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency unveiled a 88,000-square-foot facility housing studio space , offices, editing suites, and accessory rooms and intended to facilitate a wide variety of movies, television series, and other commercial productions (Rodriguez, 2015). Built at a cost of over $14.5 million, the building is the result of a public–private partnership between the redevelopment agency and EUE/Screen Gems Studio, a film and television company that operates twenty-two studios in New York , Georgia, and North Carolina.

Lately, the discussion in the city about the future of the film industry is quite prominent and revolves around the questions of what government can do to support the creative industries and, in particular, what is the most appropriate jurisdiction to frame adequate interventions. Is the city helping the industry thrive, or are incentives from other levels of government , such as the state or county, needed to be involved as well? From 2010 to 2016, the state gave $296 million in tax credits to 312 film and television projects (Kennedy, 2018).

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