Tahereh Granpayehvaghei

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Urban Planning and Public Affairs Consultant at The University of Texas at Arlington

Increasing investment in attracting creative clusters has become a quintessentially common practice at the municipal level, particularly in progressive cities, which have long been concerned with economic development. While rationales behind such investments are highly contingent on the potential economic outcomes of creative clusters, a thorough u...

A central feature of the digital age and the network society is the emergence of social media as a game-changer in the landscapes of networked power of mass-self communication (Castells, 2013) and crowd cultures (Holt 2016). Social media has become a powerful wheel of social change, shaping the urban experience (Zukin, 2009) and augmenting or level...

Creative industries are finding their positions as strong catalysts for economic development, and neighborhood revitalization in communities, even though our knowledge of the location preference of the creative clusters needs further expansion. To demonstrate the formidable presence of arts and culture in the country, suffice it to say that nationa...

Creative industries have gained increasing attention in light of the cultural economy as viable magnets for local and regional economic development. Policy makers thus would benefit from attracting creative industries as potential economic boosters. However, it is hard to target such catalyst industries without better knowledge of the urban form co...

Creative industries have gained increasing attention in light of creative economy as viable magnets for economic development in cities and communities. The value of creative industries’ production in the U.S in 2014 was 4.2% of the national gross domestic product, which contributed more to the national economy than did construction, mining, utiliti...