Handbook of Creative Cities. This item is unavailable.Handbook of Creative Cities

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.

Edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Professor of Management, IBMBA Program, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and Adjunct Professor, International School of Management and Technology, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, Åke E. Andersson, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping and Emeritus Professor of Infrastructural Economics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Charlotta Mellander, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada