The Creative Capital of Cities
Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation
Studies in Urban and Social Change
1. Edition October 2011
264 Pages, Softcover
Practical Approach Book
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.
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
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
6. Synthesis: The creative capital of cities
