The Creative Capital of Cities
Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation
Studies in Urban and Social Change
1. Edition October 2011
260 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
