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Jun Wu is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Sociology at the Beijing Administration Institute and Beijing Metropolis High-end Think Tank. He holds a PhD from Renmin University of China and was visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. He is fellow at Urban Sociology Professional Committee and Deputy Secretary-general at Urban Social Geography Professional Committee, of the Chinese Sociological Association. He is interested in urban sociology, urban culture and urban issues, and has focused on Scenes Theory and Urban Development in the past 10 years. He oversees National Social Science Fund Project “Research on cultural dynamics of big cities in the context of new urbanization” (2015-2018). He has published over 60 articles in Sociological Review of China, Urban Development Research etc. He has published two books, Cultural Dynamics: the New Thinking of Urban Development and Cultural Amenities: How Local Qualities Shape Urban Development.
There has been a cultural turn in urban development, as an increasing number of scholars are stressing the importance of culture in urban research and policy agendas. Specifically, the bohemian cultural scene could drive an integral cultural policy approach between the cultural scenes city and the creative city approach. Based on amenities data from 65 major Chinese cities, this paper investigates the relationship between bohemian cultural scenes and creative development of Chinese cities as well as regional differences using tree-based model, ordinary least squares (OLS) and truncated regression, and provides conceptual and quantitative support for a bohemian cultural scenes policy. Factor analysis suggests the bohemian cultural scene in Chinese cities consists of two dimensions: self-expression and charisma. According to regression results, bohemian scenes significantly promote urban creative development; specifically, charisma has a stronger impact on urban creativity than self-expression. There are also significant regional differences: northern and eastern cities should focus on the development of the charismatic dimension, creative subjects should adjust away from prudent industriousness and practice dynamic experimentalism; whereas southern cities should focus on the self-expressive dimension, and continue to promote tolerance, inclusivity and expressive practice. Finally, the bohemian scenes policy demands an integral policy approach sensitive to the existing socioeconomic context: policymakers should incorporate specific amenities into existing qualities of local spaces and cultural consumption to stimulate creative development.
Jun Wu; Hao Zheng; Tong Wang; Terry Clark. Bohemian Cultural Scenes and Creative Development of Chinese Cities: An Analysis of 65 Cities Using Cultural Amenity Data. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5260 .
AMA StyleJun Wu, Hao Zheng, Tong Wang, Terry Clark. Bohemian Cultural Scenes and Creative Development of Chinese Cities: An Analysis of 65 Cities Using Cultural Amenity Data. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5260.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJun Wu; Hao Zheng; Tong Wang; Terry Clark. 2021. "Bohemian Cultural Scenes and Creative Development of Chinese Cities: An Analysis of 65 Cities Using Cultural Amenity Data." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5260.