Cities and creativity from the Renaissance to the present:

This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the ci...

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Weitere Verfasser: Damme, Ilja van (HerausgeberIn), Munck, Bert de 1967- (HerausgeberIn), Miles, Andrew (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York and London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2018
Schriftenreihe:Routledge advances in urban history 1
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Zusammenfassung:This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. So far, however, nobody has challenged the core premise underlying this narrative, asking why we automatically have to look at cities as being the agents of change and innovation. What processes have been at work historically before the predominance of cities in nurturing creativity and innovation was established? In order to tackle this question, the editors of this volume have collected case studies ranging from Renaissance Firenze and sixteenth-century Antwerp to early modern Naples, Amsterdam, Bologna, Paris, to industrializing Sheffield and nineteenth-and twentieth century cities covering Scandinavian port towns, Venice, and London, up to the French techno-industrial city Grenoble. Jointly, these case studies show that a creative city is not an objective or ontological reality, but rather a complex and heterogenic "assemblage," in which material, infrastructural and spatial elements become historically entangled with power-laden discourses, narratives and imaginaries about the city and urban actor groups
Beschreibung:Aus dem Dankwort: The present volume resulted from two conferences in Antwerp in paticular, on 12 and 13 December 2013 and 2 October 2015, respectively. - Titel der Konferenz vom 12. und 13. Dezember 2013: "Unscrewing the Creative City: The Historical Fabrication of Cities as Agents of Economic Innovation and Creativity" im Internet ermittelt
Beschreibung:xxv, 276 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9781138054066
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