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Author Van Damme, Ilja, author

Title Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present / Ilja Van Damme
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Advances in Urban History
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Table; Contributors; Series Editor Introduction; Acknowledgments; Part I Introduction; 1 Cities of a Lesser God: Opening the Black Box of Creative Cities and Their Agency; 2 Reflections on the Origins, Interpretations and Development of the Creative City Idea; Part II From the Renaissance to Industrialisation; 3 The Urban Imaginary as a Social and Economic Factor: Renaissance Cities and the Fabrication of Quality, Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries; 4 In Search of the New Rome? Creative Cities and Early Modern Travel Behaviour
5 Cultural Creativity and Symbolic Economy in Early Modern Naples: Music and Theatre as Cultural Industries6 Mirroring Two Golden Ages: Values and Visions in Seventeenth- and Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam; 7 Manufacturing Innovation as Spatial Culture: Sheffield's Cutlery Industry, circa 1750-1900; 8 Paris and Bologna in the Nineteenth Century: A New Relationship Between Urban Culture and Industrialisation; Part III Modern Times; 9 Grenoble, Capital of the Alps, Innovative City: An Innovation-Led Territorial Regime
10 Creating the Creative Urban Waterfront in Scandinavia: Harbour Areas from Industrial Multitude to Planned Creative Spaces11 The Venice International Film Festival and the City: Building a Cultural Tourist Destination by Juxtaposition; 12 Building the Creative City: London's Southbank and the Archaeology of Creative Spaces; Part IV Conclusions; 13 Creative Cities and the Infrastructural Fragmentation of Socio-economic Space; Index
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 underlying 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 order to tackle this question, the editors of this volume have collected case studies ranging from Renaissance Firenze and sixteenth-century Antwerp to early modern 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
Subject Cities and towns -- History
Cultural industries -- History
Diffusion of innovations -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Cities and towns
Cultural industries
Diffusion of innovations
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author De Munck, Bert
Miles, Andrew
ISBN 9781315167046
1315167042