Tom Hutton is Professor in the Centre for Human Settlements, School of Community & Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His principal research interests are in the ‘new economy’. Besides editing (or co-editing) special journal issues dealing with the new economy, his recent publications  include The New Economy of the Inner City (Routledge, 2008/2010), >Cities and the Cultural Economy (Routledge, 2014) ; and New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: from industrial restructuring to the cultural turn (Routledge 2012; co-edited with Peter Daniels and K C Ho).