The Cultural Development Strategies of Creative City： A Case of Kanazawa, Japan
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Huang, Chiao-Ying
Abstract
The research purpose of this dissertation is to understand why Kanazawa Japan receives great honor and is awarded as creative city from UNESCO for being a “traditional” city of handicraft? What are its cultural development strategies to head toward a creative city? How to transform itself to a creative city and to exert fresh ideas historically and conventionally? How to enable a parallel development of both traditional and modern culture? The paper expects to understand development strategies of urban culture through study and observation of Kanazawa city, with research outcomes provided as reference to draft strategies for Taiwan.
The paper introduces “literature review analysis”, “interview method”, and “participation observation” to conduct analysis, to understand the historical background, geography, traditional craft, cultural organization, culture facility, historical and cultural landscapes, cultural activities and related information of Kanazawa city. After a field research on Kanazawa city is conducted, the author realizes that, although Kanazawa city faces a change in time and lifestyle, insufficient talents and successor, decline in demand at the same time, it also responds to break through difficulty in a proactive way, in which 7 cultural development strategies were summarized as below : (1) conservation and activation of cultural resources (2) succession and re-innovation of tradition (3) development and incubation of creative talents (4) creation and establishment of creative atmosphere (5) connection and promotion of cultural business (6) fulfillment and realization of creative government (7) contribution for connecting to the world.
Lastly, in author’s point of view, various cities should be open-minded and tolerant to receive citizens’ opinions during the process of heading toward a creative city, with cognition and fancy about local culture deepened between citizens, communities/groups and enterprises, to urge the folk circle and the government becomes one to expect to jointly drive progress and development of cities.
Subjects
Creative City
Cultural City
Cultural Development Strategies
Kanazawa
SDGs
Type
thesis
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