Explaining the factors affecting the city's cultural policies with the approach of creative and cultural industries of Isfahan city

Authors

1 PhD student of geography and urban planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Human Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Cultural policies are adopted based on cultural approaches with the aim of creating cultural changes in the society and are implemented under the influence of various factors. The main goal of this research is to identify the effective factors, expected functions and cultural policies in the form of a model for the implementation of cultural policies with the approach of cultural creative industries of Isfahan city. For this purpose, this research was carried out in the spatial territory of Isfahan city in 1401. The research method is interpretive, practical and qualitative. The statistical population of this research includes experts and owners of creative and cultural industries in Isfahan city. Snowball sampling method and the sample volume is determined at the theoretical saturation point of 16 people. In order to collect data, a semi-structured interview tool is used, and in their analysis, a content analysis method is used in the form of Maxqda software. The results of this research identify the factors and components that influence the formation of the pattern of creative cultural policies in the form of 10 factors (geographical location, proximity, cultural facilities and infrastructure, political support, managers' support, laws and regulations of the economic situation, cultural maturity, characteristics of activists, market capabilities), cultural policies in the form of 3 policies (production, class and creative place-oriented), and expected functions in the form of 6 factors (cultural stability, development of consumer orientation, cultural diversity, development of participation, development of cultural economy, development of competitiveness) ) Led.

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