Stefan Krätke

The Creative Capital of Cities (eBook, ePUB)

Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

• Format: ePub

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444342253
• Artikelnr.: 38307775

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

List of Illustrations vii
Series Editors' Preface x
Introduction 1
1 Creativity and Innovation under the Command of Capital 12
The Capitalist Imperative of Creativity and Innovation 12
Generalizing Models of Urban Economic Development 18
The Role of Innovation and Interurban Competition in Harvey's Theory of
Capitalist Urbanization 24
Conclusion 34
2 Creative Cities as a New Urban Growth Ideology: The Impact of Creative
Occupations on Regional Economic Success 37
Introduction 37
Critique of Florida's Conception of the Creative Class 39
An Assessment of Regional Economic Success Factors and the Impact of
Creative Workers on Regional Development 47
The Impact of Creative Occupational Groups on Regional Economic Development
in Germany 52
Relationship between "Qualities of Place" and the Regional Concentration of
Scientifically and Technologically Creative Workers 77
Conclusion 88
3 Innovation and Knowledge Networks in a Metropolitan Region: The Impact of
Localization Economies and Networking on Technological Creativity 92
Introduction 92
Innovation and Knowledge Networks: Theoretical Approaches 97
The Application of Network Analysis to Urban Regions' Knowledge Networks
104
Geographic Scales and Structural Properties of Knowledge Networks in the
Metropolitan Region of Hanover 109
Assessment of Network Impacts on Regional Firms' Innovation Output 121
Conclusion 125
4 Creativity in the Culture and Media Industries: The Impact of Commercial
Imperatives on Artistic Creativity 128
Introduction 128
The Institutional Order of the Cultural Economy: Creativity in a Capitalist
Context 131
Global Centers of the Culture Industry and the Production of Lifestyle
Images 146
Conclusion 155
5 Local Clustering of the Cultural Economy in the Metropolis of Berlin: The
Urbanization Economies of Artistically Creative Occupations 158
Introduction 158
The Rise of the Cultural Economy in Berlin's Inner-City Area 163
Creative Cities and the Role of the Culture Industries in Urban Economic
and Spatial Development: Implications for Urban Regeneration 183
Conclusion 191
6 Synthesis: The Creative Capital of Cities 194
Appendix: Grouping of Occupations and Subsectors 208
References 219
Index 234