The creative capital of cities : interactive knowledge creation and the urbanization economies of innovation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Krätke, Stefan, 1952-
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Σειρά: Studies in urban and social change.
• Θέματα: Creative ability.; Technological innovations.; Urbanization.; Cities and towns.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.; Städer > tillväxt.; Kreativitet > ekonomiska aspekter.; Electronic books.

"The Creative Capital of Cities challenges the new urban growth concepts of creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. The author presents both technological creativity in knowledge-intensive industries and artistical creativity in the cultural economy sector in the analysis...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Creativity and Innovation under the Command of Capital
• Creative Cities as a New Urban Growth Ideology
• Innovation and Knowledge Networks in a Metropolitan Region
• Creativity in the Culture and Media Industries
• Local Clustering of the Cultural Economy in the Metropolis of Berlin
• Synthesis: The Creative Capital of Cities
• Appendix: Grouping of Occupations and Subsectors
• References
• Index.
• 1. Creativity and innovation under the command of capital.
• The capitalist imperative of creativity and innovation.
• Generalizing models of urban economic development.
• The role of innovation and inter-urban competition in Harvey's theory of capitalist urbanization.
• 2. Creative cities as a new urban growth ideology.
• The impact of creative occupations on regional economic success.
• Critique of Florida's conception of the creative class.
• An assessment of regional economic success factors and the impact of creative workers on regional development.
• The impact of creative occupational groups on regional economic development in Germany.
• Relationship between "qualities of place" and the regional concentration of scientifically and technologically creative workers.
• 3. Innovation and knowledge networks in a metropolitan region.
• The impact of localization economies and networking on technological creativity.
• Innovation and knowledge networks: Theoretical approaches.
• The application of network analysis to urban regions" knowledge networks.
• Geographic scales and structural properties of knowledge networks in the metropolitan region of Hanover.
• Assessment of network impacts on regional firms" innovation output.
• 4. Creativity in the culture and media industries.
• The impact of commercial imperatives on artistic creativity.
• The institutional order of the cultural economy : Creativity in a capitalist context.
• Global centres of the culture industry and the production of lifestyle images.
• 5. Local clustering of the cultural economy in the metropolis of Berlin.
• The urbanization economies of artistically creative occupations.
• The rise of the cultural economy in Berlin's inner-city area.
• Creative cities and the role of the culture industries in urban economic and spatial development: Implications for urban regeneration.
• 6. Synthesis : The creative capital of cities.