Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation - Brossura

Kratke, Stefan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1444336223 ISBN 13: 9781444336221

Casa editrice: W.B., 2012

Riassunto

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.

• Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class
• Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin
• Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets

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Recensione:

"This is an outstanding addition to our understanding of the role of creativity and innovation in urban growth and competition. Especially nuanced regarding governance implications, the rise of creative industries is firmly located within geographies of uneven development, with Harvey taking precedence over Florida in fruitful mixture of insightful theoretical engagement and significant empirical analyses."
--Peter Taylor, Northumbria University
 
"At last, a cogently argued and empirically well-founded analysis of the much-vaunted 'creative city'. Cutting through the hype, Stefan Krätke presents a compelling political economy of creative capital(ism), with important implications for both theory and policy."
--Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia

L'autore:

Stefan Kratke is Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of a wide variety of publications, in both German and English, that include The Metropolization of the European Urban System in the Era of Globalization (2007) and City of Talents? Berlin's Regional Economy, Socio-spatial Fabric and `Worst Practice' Urban Governance (2004).

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• Editore: W.B.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1444336223
• ISBN 13: 9781444336221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264