Cities and creativity from the Renaissance to the present

by Damme, Ilja van Miles, Andrew Munck, Bert De

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Title Statements

Full title :Cities and creativity from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Ilja Van Damme, Bert De Munck, and Andrew Miles.

Summary

"This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. So far, however, nobody has challenged the core premise undiferlying this narrative, asking why we automatically have to look at cities as being the agents of change and innovation. What processes have been at work historically before the predominance of cities in nurturing creativity and innovation was established? In ordifer to tackle this question, the editors of this volume have collected case studies ranging from Renaissance Firenze and sixteenth-century Antwerp to early modifern Naples, Amsterdam, Bologna, Paris, to industrializing Sheffield and nineteenth-and twentieth century cities covering Scandinavian port towns, Venice, and London, up to the French techno-industrial city Grenoble. Jointly, these case studies show that a creative city is not an objective or ontological reality, but rather a complex and heterogenic "assemblage," in which material, infrastructural and spatial elements become historically entangled with power-laden discourses, narratives and imaginaries about the city and urban actor groups."--Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.
Edition:1st

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource : : illustrations (black and white).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351681797, 1351681796, 9781351681803, 135168180X, 9781351681780, 1351681788, 9781315167046, 1315167042
oclc:on1009076953
LC Classification:HT113
Dewey Decimal:307.7609

Subjects

Cities and towns Cities and towns -- History Cultural industries Cultural industries -- History Diffusion of innovations Diffusion of innovations -- History History Industries culturelles -- Histoire Innovations -- Diffusion Villes -- Histoire