UID:
almahu_9949865768302882
Format:
1 online resource :
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illustrations (black and white).
Edition:
1st.
ISBN:
9781351681797
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1351681796
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9781351681803
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135168180X
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9781351681780
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1351681788
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9781315167046
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1315167042
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in urban history ; 1
Content:
"This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. So far, however, nobody has challenged the core premise undiferlying this narrative, asking why we automatically have to look at cities as being the agents of change and innovation. What processes have been at work historically before the predominance of cities in nurturing creativity and innovation was established? In ordifer to tackle this question, the editors of this volume have collected case studies ranging from Renaissance Firenze and sixteenth-century Antwerp to early modifern Naples, Amsterdam, Bologna, Paris, to industrializing Sheffield and nineteenth-and twentieth century cities covering Scandinavian port towns, Venice, and London, up to the French techno-industrial city Grenoble. Jointly, these case studies show that a creative city is not an objective or ontological reality, but rather a complex and heterogenic "assemblage," in which material, infrastructural and spatial elements become historically entangled with power-laden discourses, narratives and imaginaries about the city and urban actor groups."--Provided by publisher.
Note:
Part Part I Introduction --
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chapter 1 Cities of a Lesser God: Opening the Black Box of Creative Cities and Their Agency /
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chapter 2 Reflections on the Origins, Interpretations and Development of the Creative City Idea /
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part Part II From the Renaissance to Industrialisation --
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chapter 3 The Urban Imaginary as a Social and Economic Factor: Renaissance Cities and the Fabrication of Quality, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries /
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chapter 4 In Search of the New Rome? Creative Cities and Early Modifern Travel Behaviour /
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chapter 5 Cultural Creativity and Symbolic Economy in Early Modifern Naples: Music and Theatre as Cultural Industries /
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chapter 6 Mirroring Two Golden Ages: Values and Visions in Seventeenth- and Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam CLAARTJE RASTERHOFF --
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chapter 7 Manufacturing Innovation as Spatial Culture: Sheffield's Cutlery Industry, circa 1750-1900 /
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chapter 8 Paris and Bologna in the Nineteenth Century: A New Relationship Between Urban Culture and Industrialisation /
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part Part III Modifern Times --
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chapter 9 Grenoble, Capital of the Alps, Innovative City: An Innovation-Led Territorial Regime /
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chapter 10 Creating the Creative Urban Waterfront in Scandinavia: Harbour Areas from Industrial Multitude to Planned Creative Spaces /
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chapter 11 The Venice International Film Festival and the City: Building a Cultural Tourist Destination by Juxtaposition /
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chapter 12 Building the Creative City: London's Southbank and the Archaeology of Creative Spaces /
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part Part IV Conclusions --
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chapter 13 Creative Cities and the Infrastructural Fragmentation of Socio-economic Space /
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781138054066
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315167046
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