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    Creative arts space in Hong Kong: three tales through the lens of cultural capital
    CHAN, Hoi Ling Anne ( 2018)
    The fact that culture and creativity are often instrumentalised in urban regeneration and/or development points to a pragmatic relationship between culture and the city. Hong Kong, like many post-colonial and post-industrial cities, faced challenges in economic restructuring and in the search of a new identity. Thus, culture came to the centre of the stage in the formulation of development strategies and started to accumulate cultural assets. The accumulation of cultural assets led to the emergence of various forms of cultural assets such as cultural district, infrastructure, projects in order to achieve various aims. However, most of the existing research focused on large-scale flagship projects from an economic or strategic perspective. A holistic understanding of those cultural projects is limited in the literature especially for the small-scale cultural projects. This research examines how the creative arts spaces interact with the host city, Hong Kong through the lens of cultural capital. Three creative arts spaces with different management models are chosen as case studies. Data were collected through field investigation and key informant interviews as well as from secondary sources such as archives and media. The data collected are analysed by executing thematic analysis procedures. The findings reveal that creative arts spaces are different from large-scale flagship projects in their relations to cities. Instead of shaping the urban landscape, the small-scale arts spaces are vulnerable as they are more likely being shaped by the urban landscape. Small-scale arts spaces fail to function and formulate a protective shell for artists as the functions are valorised by the influences of institutional changes as well as historical events. This asymmetrical relationship between culture and the city also presents the expectation gaps between the users in the CASs. The CASs are overcast by the government for achieving its aspiration and the urban policies are failed to address those gaps. As a result, the CASs are neither fostering creative practices nor serving the community. This research concludes that when creativity and culture are quintessential in the city branding and planning policymaking nowadays, the empirical study of various dimensions of the CASs can help the planners and policymakers to reconsider the instrumental value of creativity and culture. By redefining the positionings and functions of the creative arts spaces in the city, it can foster or uphold the creative vibe in both the city and the districts. Besides, it also calls for a formulation of tailor-made industrial policy for arts industry so as to provide institutional support for the arts practitioners.