In order to analyse and explain the growing importance of culture in cities, this article briefly reviews three traditions of urban political economy (Marxist, neo-classical and neo-Weberian). The paper argues that rather than looking for a new embracing reductionist cultural studies paradigm, it is probably more fruitful to work on the combination of culture, social structures, economics and politics, for instance in the Weberian or neo-Gramscian tradition. It is therefore argued that an opened political economy of cities must take culture more seriously than in the past but that there is no reason to reject political economy (or economic sociology) to work on the culturalization of cities.
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