Stefan Krätke

The Creative Capital of Cities

Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Studies in Urban and Social Change .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781444336214
• ISBN-10: 1444336215
• Artikelnr.: 32568179

Autorenporträt

Stefan Krätke is Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of a wide variety of publications, in both German and English, that include The Metropolization of the European Urban System in the Era of Globalization (2007) and City of Talents? Berlin's Regional Economy, Socio-spatial Fabric and 'Worst Practice' Urban Governance (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 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