ISBN:
9780857936394
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 555 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Elgar Original Reference
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Handbook of creative cities
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Stadtökonomik
;
Stadtentwicklung
;
Ballungsraum
;
Kreativität
;
Lebensqualität
;
Welt
;
Marketing
;
Cities and towns
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Kulturwirtschaft
;
Stadtentwicklung
;
Cities and towns
;
Creative thinking
;
Urban policy
;
Urban economics
;
Sociology, Urban
;
City planning
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Kulturwirtschaft
;
Stadtentwicklung
Abstract:
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 policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist A...ke 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
Abstract:
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 policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist A...ke 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
Description / Table of Contents:
COVER; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; PART 1 FOUNDATIONS; 1 Analysing creative cities; 2 Creative people need creative cities; 3 The creative class paradigm; 4 Big-C creativity in the big city; 5 Clusters, networks and creativity; PART 2 PEOPLE; 6 The open city; 7 The value of creativity; 8 Understanding Canada's evolving design economy; 9 Technology, talent and tolerance and inter-regional migration in Canada; 10 Higher education and the creative city; PART 3 NETWORKS; 11 Research nodes and networks; 12 Scenes, innovation, and urban development
Description / Table of Contents:
13 The arts: not just artists (and vice versa)14 The creative potential of network cities; 15 Why being there matters: Finnish professionals in Silicon Valley; PART 4 PLANNING; 16 Creative cities need less government; 17 Land-use regulation for the creative city; 18 The emergence of Vancouver as a creative city; PART 5 MARKETS; 19 Cultivating creativity: market creation of agglomeration economies; 20 The sociability and morality of market settlements; 21 Creative environments: the case for local economic diversity; 22 Does density matter?; 23 Creative milieus in the Stockholm region
Description / Table of Contents:
24 The creative city and its distributional consequences: the case of WellingtonPART 6 VISIONS; 25 Contract, voice and rent: voluntary urban planning; 26 A roadmap for the creative city; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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