This paper aims to explore the relation between territorial agglomeration of cultural activities and the development of specific gatekeeping processes, which embed, support and foster creativity, and play a fundamental role in the industrial organization of these activities. In the sequence of a previous conceptual research about creativity and the relation between territorial agglometarion and the development of creative process in cultural production, a survey was developed and applied to cultural “creators” in Portuguese urban areas, in order to understand their perceptions about their creative processes, the economic organization of their activity and its institutional framework. Some of the results of this survey are analyzed and discussed, with the focus on the issues related to the symbolic and cultural intermediation. Some preliminary conclusions are drawn, having in mind the promotion of cultural-based sustainable urban creative dynamics.
I. Introduction 2
II. Creativity, Agglomeration and Urban Space 3
III. The Importance of Legitimization and the Role of Cultural Gatekeepers 10
IV. Some Preliminary Results of an Empirical Study on Portuguese Artists Creativity 16
1. The Representations of the Concept of Creativity 18
2. The Characteristics of Creative Goods 20
3. The Conditions to be Creative 21
4. The Factors Underneath Creative Agglomeration in Certain Urban Areas 23
5. Exemplification of Creative Areas 25
V. Conclusions 26
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