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The Creative Capital of Cities

Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

Stefan Krätke author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:7th Oct '11

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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

"On the whole, The Creative Capital of Cities makes a valuable contribution to the urban economic literature. It provides a critical and quite comprehensive overview of a number of issues that have so far been left too much aside in the current debate."  (J Hous and the Built Environ, 8 September 2012)

 

ISBN: 9781444336221

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 390g

264 pages