Kinmen: governing the culture industry city in the changing global context

Abstract

Culture industry is now a significant local economic force of many urban areas, due primarily to the effects of new local institutional dynamics and the revaluing of local space as a culture and tourism commodity. In turn, this should be linked to high-quality space-governing institutions and the "local mobilization" strategies that are related to higher levels of local economic efficiency. In this paper, the city of Kinmen will be examined. It has transformed the local culture industries (especially the historical and war heritages) into the key economic and identity-revival power relying on appropriate local institutional structures.