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CREATIVE CITIES (creative + city)
Selected AbstractsCREATIVE CITIES: THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND THE CREATIVE CLASSGEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 2 2008Andy C. Pratt ABSTRACT. The aim of this article is to critically examine the notion that the creative class may or may not play as a causal mechanism of urban regeneration. I begin with a review of Florida's argument focusing on the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings. The second section develops a critique of the relationship between the creative class and growth. This is followed by an attempt to clarify the relationship between the concepts of creativity, culture and the creative industries. Finally, I suggest that policy-makers may achieve more successful regeneration outcomes if they attend to the cultural industries as an object that links production and consumption, manufacturing and service. Such a notion is more useful in interpreting and understanding the significant role of cultural production in contemporary cities, and what relation it has to growth. [source] CREATIVE CITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND POLICY QUESTIONSJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2006Allen J. Scott I seek to situate the concept of creative cities within the context of the so-called new economy and to trace out the connections of these phenomena to recent shifts in technologies, structures of production, labor markets, and the dynamics of locational agglomeration. I try to show, in particular, how the structures of the new economy unleash historically specific forms of economic and cultural innovation in modern cities. The argument is concerned passim with policy issues and, above all, with the general possibilities and limitations faced by policymakers in any attempt to build creative cities. The effects of globalization are discussed, with special reference to the prospective emergence of a worldwide network of creative cities bound together in relations of competition and cooperation. In the conclusion, I pinpoint some of the darker dimensions,both actual and potential,of creative cities. [source] A View on Creative Cities Beyond the HypeCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2008Gert-Jan Hospers Fuelled by the influential work of urban guru Richard Florida, the European knowledge economy is seeing a rise of cities calling themselves ,creative cities'. In this paper we have a look at the concept of creative cities and offer a view on them beyond the hype. We understand ,creative cities' as competitive urban areas that combine both concentration, diversity, instability as well as a positive image. Examples of creative cities in history and recent best practice of two such urban areas in Europe (Øresund and Manchester) show that local governments cannot plan knowledge, creativity and innovation from scratch. We conclude, however, that local governments can increase the chance that urban creativity emerges by providing the appropriate framework conditions. [source] CREATIVE CITIES: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND POLICY QUESTIONSJOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2006Allen J. Scott I seek to situate the concept of creative cities within the context of the so-called new economy and to trace out the connections of these phenomena to recent shifts in technologies, structures of production, labor markets, and the dynamics of locational agglomeration. I try to show, in particular, how the structures of the new economy unleash historically specific forms of economic and cultural innovation in modern cities. The argument is concerned passim with policy issues and, above all, with the general possibilities and limitations faced by policymakers in any attempt to build creative cities. The effects of globalization are discussed, with special reference to the prospective emergence of a worldwide network of creative cities bound together in relations of competition and cooperation. In the conclusion, I pinpoint some of the darker dimensions,both actual and potential,of creative cities. [source] A View on Creative Cities Beyond the HypeCREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2008Gert-Jan Hospers Fuelled by the influential work of urban guru Richard Florida, the European knowledge economy is seeing a rise of cities calling themselves ,creative cities'. In this paper we have a look at the concept of creative cities and offer a view on them beyond the hype. We understand ,creative cities' as competitive urban areas that combine both concentration, diversity, instability as well as a positive image. Examples of creative cities in history and recent best practice of two such urban areas in Europe (Øresund and Manchester) show that local governments cannot plan knowledge, creativity and innovation from scratch. We conclude, however, that local governments can increase the chance that urban creativity emerges by providing the appropriate framework conditions. [source] The Urban Question as Cargo Cult: Opportunities for a New Urban PedagogyINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2008ROB SHIELDS Abstract Urban research is unreflexive toward its object of study, the city, compromising its methodologies and theoretical capacity. This polemic draws on examples such as ,creative cities', which have been profiled and analysed for their local recipes for economic success. ,Global cities' have become stereotypes of a neoliberal form of the ,good life' to which much recent urban research is a handmaiden, a hegemonic knowledge project. These ,metro-poles' of value are a form of urban pedagogy that presents lesser local elites with lessons to be followed. A form of cargo cult theory suggests, build it and wealth will come , hence the symmetry of urban scholarship with the fad for city rankings in pop journalism. In contrast to neo-structural analyses of the global city, other research focuses too closely on regional geographies, local forces and urban affordances. A synthetic level of theory is proposed to bridge the divide which marks urban and regional studies. The ,urban' needs to be rediscovered as a central question. The urban is an object of theory and the city is a truth spot. The urban is more than infrastructure and bodies but an intangible good or ,virtuality' that requires an appropriate methodological toolkit. Résumé La recherche urbaine manque de réflexivitéà l'égard de son objet d'étude, la ville, ce qui compromet ses méthodologies et sa capacité théorique. Cette critique part d'exemples tels que les "villes créatives" dont on a établi le profil et l'analyse pour en déterminer les recettes locales de réussite économique. Les "villes planétaires" sont devenues des stéréotypes d'une forme néolibérale de la "bonne vie" au service de laquelle se met généralement la recherche urbaine, un projet de savoir hégémonique. Ces métro-pôles de valeur constituent une sorte de pédagogie urbaine qui expose aux moindres élites locales des leçons à suivre. Un genre de théorie du culte du cargo suggère qu'il suffit de construire pour voir la richesse arriver, d'où la symétrie entre les travaux de recherche urbaine et la mode pour les palmarès de villes dans le journalisme populaire. Contrairement aux analyses néo-structuralistes de la ville planétaire, d'autres études se consacrent de trop près aux géographies régionales, aux forces locales et aux affordances urbaines. Un niveau de théorie synthétique est proposé pour franchir la ligne de démarcation des études urbaines et régionales. Il faut redécouvrir "l'urbain" en tant que question centrale. L'urbain est un objet de théorie, la ville est un lieu de vérité. L'urbain est plus qu'une infrastructure et des entités, c'est un bien intangible, une "virtualité", qui nécessite un jeu d'outils méthodologiques approprié. [source] | ||||||||||