Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems

•Analyses of Brisbane’s creative ecosystem through planned and organically evolved creative hotspots.•Formal top-down developments under the vision of creative strategies of a city and recently emerging informal bottom-up creative spaces jointly form the creative ecosystem.•The informal developments evolving in a different direction than the formal developments.•Casual creative environments marginalised from the mainstream spaces.•These spaces provide informal learning and networking, skill development, and tinkering