Turkey's Creative Cities

Esen U. B., ATAY Ö.

BILIG, cilt.92, sa.92, ss.29-54, 2020 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 92 Sayı: 92
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12995/bilig.9202
  • Dergi Adı: BILIG
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.29-54
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Creative economy, creative city, technology, tolerance, talent, Creativity Index, Turkey, RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC-GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES, CULTURAL INDUSTRIES, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, COUNTRIES
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Creative cities are those which attract creative class working in creative jobs, densely contains high-educated people, have high-tech industries and tolerant to diversities. The power of future economies lies beneath the development of creative cities. Because creative cities have creativity that is the pioneer of development and growth. In this context, the purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between the levels of creativity and development of Turkey's cities. In the study; firstly, cities' creativity levels were calculated by using technology, tolerance and talent inputs and then compared with their development levels. Cities' levels of creativity were calculated by using indexing method in Global Creativity Index. In the creative cities ranking, Ankara and Kocaeli shared the first place, followed by Eskisehir, Istanbul and Izmir. As a result of the study, a strong relationship between creativity and development also revealed in the cities of Turkey.