The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Book Details
Author(s)Stefan Krätke
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1444336215
ISBN-139781444336214
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Sales Rank8,575,080
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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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