Mapping Culture in the Waterloo Region: Exploring Dispersed Cultural Communities and Clustered Cultural Scenes in a Medium-sized City Region
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Abstract
Currently undergoing rapid growth due primarily to a thriving tech sector, the Waterloo Region is increasingly concerned with the attraction and retention of key labour talent. Aspects of the creative economy, such as vibrant cultural scenes, nightlife, public spaces, and leisure amenities have been specifically identified by key stakeholders as vital to the continued growth and success of the region. While creative people certainly live and work in the Waterloo Region, labour shortages linked to challenges of worker attraction and retention indicate that the current talent base is not sufficient to meet regional economic needs. In this article, we engage critically with creative economy typologies which have been taken up in local cultural planning and explore some of the gaps and oversights that such ‘one-size-fits-all’ creative city models have in medium-sized post-industrial urban centres. Analyzed through the lens of cultural mapping methodologies, the region offers a valuable case study as it works to rebrand itself, altering its cultural fortunes through concerted city-building efforts.Keywords: cultural mapping, scenes, liveability, urban planning, vibrancyRésumé: La région de Waterloo est préoccupée et ce, de manière croissante, par l’attraction et la rétention d’une main-d’oeuvre qualifiée en raison notamment de son prolifique secteur des technologies. Les aspects culturels de l’économie créative tels une vie culturelle riche, la vie nocturne, les espaces publics et les équipements de loisirs ont été identifiés comme des éléments essentiels par les parties-prenantes de la région comme des éléments essentiels au succès de la région. Alors que des acteurs de l’économie créative résident effectivement dans la région de Waterloo, la pénurie de main-d’oeuvre associée aux défis de l’attractivité et à la rétention du talent laissent entendre que les efforts actuels sont insuffisants pour rencontrer les besoins de la région. Dans cet article, les typologies de l’économie créative d’usage dans la planification culturelle locale seront abordées afin de mettre en relief les failles et lacunes de certains modèles peu adaptés aux espaces urbains de taille moyenne et aux centres urbains de type post-industriel. En se basant sur la méthodologie de la cartographie culturelle, cette étude de cas de la région offre plusieurs constats utiles à la compréhension des stratégies de production d’image de marque au niveau régional.Mots clé: cartographie culturelle, scènes culturelles, habitabilité, planification urbaine, dynamisme
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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