High-tech business location, transportation accessibility, and implications for sustainability: Evaluating the differences between high-tech specializations using empirical evidence from U.S. booming regions (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Studies on the accessibility needs of high-tech firms often draw on agglomeration economies and creative class assumptions that emphasizes how transit and walkability encourage clustering, knowledge exchange and innovation. As a result, some a... Read More about High-tech business location, transportation accessibility, and implications for sustainability: Evaluating the differences between high-tech specializations using empirical evidence from U.S. booming regions.

The missing link between place and productivity? The impact of transit-oriented development on the knowledge and creative economy (2019)
Journal Article

Emerging research suggests that planners and policy makers should explore the expanded role Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plays in promoting innovation and economic growth. TOD station characteristics including accessibility, walkability, densit... Read More about The missing link between place and productivity? The impact of transit-oriented development on the knowledge and creative economy.

Sampling molecular conformations and dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality framework (2018)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved. We describe a framework for interactive molecular dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality (VR) environment, combining rigorous cloud-mounted atomistic physics simulations with commodity VR hardware,... Read More about Sampling molecular conformations and dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality framework.

Finding an audience: Evaluating the production and marketing of low budget British films in the iFeatures production scheme, 2009 - 2014 (2017)
Thesis

This thesis explores the first iteration of iFeatures, a grant-aided low budget production scheme in Bristol, UK, from 2009 – 2014. The scheme encouraged and trained filmmakers to develop digital marketing and distribution strategies to enable the t... Read More about Finding an audience: Evaluating the production and marketing of low budget British films in the iFeatures production scheme, 2009 - 2014.

Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2016. The arts have long played a role in debates around gentrification and displacement, yet their roles and impacts as change agents are not clear-cut. According to the standard account, artists facilitate ge... Read More about Gentrification, displacement and the arts: Untangling the relationship between arts industries and place change.

Neighborhood diversity, economic health, and the role of the arts (2016)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2016 Urban Affairs Association Policymakers pursue a range of strategies aimed at diversifying neighborhoods despite research indicating the complicated and potentially damaging results of these efforts. One increasingly common approach i... Read More about Neighborhood diversity, economic health, and the role of the arts.

The Importance of Neighborhood Context in Arts-Led Development: Community Anchor or Creative Class Magnet? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This article contributes to the creative city–community development arts policy debate by examining the association of arts organizations to various neighborhood contexts in New York City. Results from multivariate regre... Read More about The Importance of Neighborhood Context in Arts-Led Development: Community Anchor or Creative Class Magnet?.

Music, value, and networks in the digital world (2015)
Report

Extract:

In music as in life, nothing is more important than people. Professional music-makers need audiences, and to reach those audiences, they need the support of many other people, from promoters and agents to fans who will rave about them to... Read More about Music, value, and networks in the digital world.

Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. While recent debate has often focused on a reified “cultural value” (whether opposed to or aligned with monetary value), this article treats “value” as a verb and investigates the acts of valuing in which people engage. Thr... Read More about Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place.

Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner (2014)
Book Chapter

Extract in lieu of an abstract:

Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, was published by Penguin subsidiaries in India and North America in January 2006, and seven months later in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, a Penguin imprint. That sam... Read More about Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner.

Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO (2014)
Book Chapter

It is generally recognized that the pleasures of LEGO do not end once the instructions in a particular set have been followed and the model depicted on the box is accurately realized. Generations of children have —just as the manufacturers intended—... Read More about Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO.

'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders' (2014)
Journal Article

This contribution is aimed at discussing different current policies of convergence as well as questioning whether these exploit the opportunities of digital media to their full potential, especially with regard to transmedia storytelling, interactivi... Read More about 'One media – three screens' – Convergence and interactivity at its full potential? ARTE: French-German experiments in 'crossing the borders'.

The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis (2014)
Journal Article

Analysing census and industry data at the metro and neighbourhood levels, this paper seeks to identify the location characteristics associated with artistic clusters and determine how these characteristics vary across different places. We find that t... Read More about The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis.

Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change (2014)
Journal Article

Problem, research strategy, and findings: There is a conflict between recent creative placemaking policies intended to promote positive neighborhood development through the arts and the fact that the arts have long been cited as contributing to gentr... Read More about Gentrification and the artistic dividend: The role of the arts in neighborhood change.

Commons Sense. Exhibition and gallery test space for citizen sensing May 2018, Knowle West Media Centre
Digital Artefact

Commons Sense Test Space
Every day things are being ‘sensed’ by smart technologies and data is being collected. But what information can and should be collected? Is this data being used for the common good or corporate gain?

Our Commons Sense Tes... Read More about Commons Sense. Exhibition and gallery test space for citizen sensing May 2018, Knowle West Media Centre.