Within the 9th International Conference on Urban History to be held in Lyon, 27th - 30th August 2008, Mariangela Lavanga, Robert Kloosterman and Clemens Zimmermann are organising a session on the rise and fall of urban cultural industries. A call for paper is open until 1 November 2007. Interdisciplinary studies able to combine new economic-geographic insights on dynamic agglomeration economies with extensive historical work on the evolution of institutional contexts are highly welcome.

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