THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF "PROJECT NETWORK GEOGRAPHIES"

The development level of cultural economy indicates the transition from industrial society into knowledge-based economy in developed countries.This paper reviews the literatures of cultural and creative industries which are contributed by researchers in the field of economic geography,urban geography and cul-tural geographys.The author points out that for cultural economy,there still exist research gaps in geography studies which have a special perspective-space.This paper aims to research on the cultrual economic ge-ography and put forward a new concept which is project network geography.Curtural industry,which refers to the various businesses that produce,distribute,market or sell products that belong categorically in creative arts.Such products could include clothing,decorative material for homes,books,movies,television pro-grams,or music,indicates the western countries transfere from industrial society to post-industrial society,knowledge-based ecomomy and inforomation society.The most distinctive characteristic of cultural industry is that it is a production mode based on project and project network in which the market structure,competa-tion structure and power relationship will be changed abosolutely.Gernot Grabher,a German geographer,is a vanguard in the research of the production mode of project and project network geography.On one hand,he still focus on location;on the other hand,he adopts the idea of project and project network,and put forward the concepts including project,company,human relations,location,network,which constitute the project e-cology.This theory emphasizes on the relationship between the project participants,the localities of the pro-ject network and the regulation design.The author suggests that it is necessary to establish a new discipline which is project network geography.