The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation - Couverture rigide

Krätke, Stefan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444336215 ISBN 13 : 9781444336214

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stefan Krätke is Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of a wide variety of publications, in both German and English, that include The Metropolization of the European Urban System in the Era of Globalization (2007) and City of Talents? Berlin's Regional Economy, Socio-spatial Fabric and 'Worst Practice' Urban Governance (2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444336215
• ISBN 13: 9781444336214
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible