创新和知识对本土文化的影响外文翻译.docVIP

外文翻译 原文 Creativity and Knowledge as a Factor for Local Identity Material source: China journal net author: Oliver Frey Over recent years there has been much talk about creativity – as an individual property, as capital, as a “connecting device” in the context of new networks, as a model of governance based more on the civil society with regard to the relationship between state, community and market and, most notably, as a starting point for cities and regions to survive economically or to provide position features that can be sold even more effectively in the competition of metropolises and regions. This new embedding of social and economic processes in local or regional spaces becomes particularly clear with bigger cities. Cities have always been the place where radical change becomes visible first of all. They underlie permanent change at the macro-level of economy and culture, driven by the motor of changing social structures (Zukin 1995). Also, cities are themselves the cause and location of processes of social change. In particular, big cities create stimulation of structural change for society as a whole by the momentum of how they are socially, politically, culturally and economically constituted. The social, economic and cultural change which results in new developments of urban culture influences the meaning and perception of cultural tourism. The basic thesis of this paper is that by way of these transformation processes towards a knowledge-based “service city” a new way of embedding social and economic processes into local places is happening. Creativity and different types of knowledge play a major role in the development of cultural tourism. The interaction of built environment, social structures and processes at creative places in some neighbourhoods is seen as a resource for cultural tourism. The basic thesis acts on the assumption that places express their complex urban identities by way of different “language” (physical morphology, s