Handbook of Creative Cities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849801509 ISBN 13: 9781849801508

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the 'creative city' became the new hot topic among urban policy makers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Ake E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this 'creative troika'. In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future.

Being truly international in its scope, this major Handbook will be particularly useful for policy makers that are involved in urban development, academics in urban economics, economic geography, urban sociology, social psychology, and urban planning, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students across the social sciences and in business.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Associate Professor, Institute of Public Affairs Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ake E. Andersson, Professor, Department of Economics, Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping, Sweden and Charlotta Mellander, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849801509
• ISBN 13: 9781849801508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Andersson David Emanuel, Andersson Åke E., Mellander Charlotta