Krätke, Stefan The Creative Capital of Cities Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation Studies in Urban and Social Change
1. Edition October 2011 71.90 Euro 2011. 260 Pages, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4443-3621-4 - John Wiley & Sons
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Short description 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 of the 'creative capital of cities'. Kratke develops a transdisciplinary approach to the analysis of creativity and knowledge generation in an urban context by combining perspectives of economic geography, regional research, and socio-cultural urban studies. Providing deep insights backed up by rigorous empirical analysis.
From the contents Introduction
1. Creativity and innovation under the command of capital
2. Creative cities as a new urban growth ideology
3. Innovation and knowledge networks in a metropolitan region
4. Creativity in the culture and media industries
5. Local clustering of the cultural economy in the metropolis of Berlin
