The creative capital of cities : interactive knowledge creation and the urbanization economies of innovation /
"The Creative Capital of Cities challenges the new urban growth concepts of creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. The author presents both technological creativity in knowledge-intensive industries and artistical creativity in the cultural economy sector in the analysis...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in urban and social change.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Creativity and Innovation under the Command of Capital
- Creative Cities as a New Urban Growth Ideology
- Innovation and Knowledge Networks in a Metropolitan Region
- Creativity in the Culture and Media Industries
- Local Clustering of the Cultural Economy in the Metropolis of Berlin
- Synthesis: The Creative Capital of Cities
- Appendix: Grouping of Occupations and Subsectors
- References
- Index.
- 1. Creativity and innovation under the command of capital.
- The capitalist imperative of creativity and innovation.
- Generalizing models of urban economic development.
- The role of innovation and inter-urban competition in Harvey's theory of capitalist urbanization.
- 2. Creative cities as a new urban growth ideology.
- The impact of creative occupations on regional economic success.
- Critique of Florida's conception of the creative class.
- An assessment of regional economic success factors and the impact of creative workers on regional development.
- The impact of creative occupational groups on regional economic development in Germany.
- Relationship between qualities of place and the regional concentration of scientifically and technologically creative workers.
- 3. Innovation and knowledge networks in a metropolitan region.
- The impact of localization economies and networking on technological creativity.
- Innovation and knowledge networks: Theoretical approaches.
- The application of network analysis to urban regions knowledge networks.
- Geographic scales and structural properties of knowledge networks in the metropolitan region of Hanover.
- Assessment of network impacts on regional firms innovation output.
- 4. Creativity in the culture and media industries.
- The impact of commercial imperatives on artistic creativity.
- The institutional order of the cultural economy : Creativity in a capitalist context.
- Global centres of the culture industry and the production of lifestyle images.
- 5. Local clustering of the cultural economy in the metropolis of Berlin.
- The urbanization economies of artistically creative occupations.
- The rise of the cultural economy in Berlin's inner-city area.
- Creative cities and the role of the culture industries in urban economic and spatial development: Implications for urban regeneration.
- 6. Synthesis : The creative capital of cities.
