Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present

Language: English

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Okt 2017, 2017

1138054062 / 9781138054066

Series: Book 2 of 20 - Routledge Advances in Urban History

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studieshas beenengulfed 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 underlying 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 order to tackle this question, the editors of this volume have collected case studies ranging from Renaissance Firenze and sixteenth-century Antwerp to early modern Naples, Amsterdam, Bologna, Paris, to industrializing Sheffield and nineteenth-and twentieth century cities covering Scandinavian port towns, Venice, andLondon, 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. 306 pp. Englisch.

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Title
Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present
Author
Ilja van Damme
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd Okt 2017
Publication year
2017
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Language
English
ISBN 10
1138054062
ISBN 13
9781138054066
Item weight
580 grams
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229x152x19 mm
Series
Book 2 of 20: Routledge Advances in Urban History

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