Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities write by Myrna Margulies Breitbart. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There has been much written on the new creative economy, but most work focuses on the so-called 'creative class,' with lifestyle preferences that favor trendy new restaurants, mountain biking, and late night clubbing. This 'creative class,' flagship cultural destinations, and other forms of commodity-driven cultural production, now occupy a relatively uncritical place in the revitalization schemes of most cities up and down the urban hierarchy. In contrast, this book focuses on small- to medium-size post-industrial cities in the US, Canada, and Europe that are trying to redress the effects of deindustrialization and economic decline through cultural economic regeneration. It examines how culture-infused economic opportunities are being incorporated into planning in distinct ways, largely under the radar, in many working class communities and considers to what extent places rooted in an industrial past are able to envisage a different economic future for themselves. It questions whether these visions replicate strategies employed in larger cities or put forth plans that better suit the unique histories and challenges of places that remain outside the global limelight. Exploring the intersection between a cultural and sustainable economy raises issues that are central to how urban regeneration is approached and neighborhood needs and assets are understood. Case studies in this book examine spaces and planning processes that hold the possibility of addressing inequality by forging new economic and social relationships and by embarking on more inclusive and collaborative experiments in culture-based economic development. These examples often focus on building upon the assets of existing residents and broadly define creativity and talent. They also acknowledge both the economic and non-monetary value of cultural practices. This book maintains a critical edge, incorporating left critiques of mainstream creative economy theories and practices into empirical case studies that depart from standard cultural economy discourse. Structural barriers and unequal distributions of power make the search for viable urban development alternatives especially difficult for smaller post-industrial cities and risk derailing even creative grassroots initiatives. While acknowledging these obstacles, this book moves beyond critique and focuses on how the growing economy surrounding culture, the arts, and ecological design can be harnessed and transformed to best benefit such cities and improve the quality of life for its residents.
Creative Economies in Post-industrial Cities
Creative Economies in Post-industrial Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creative Economies in Post-industrial Cities write by Myrna Margulies Breitbart. This book was released on 2013. Creative Economies in Post-industrial Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities
Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities write by Matthew E. Kahn. This book was released on 2021-02-23. Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unlocking the Economic Potential of Post-Industrial Cities provides a roadmap for how urban policy makers, community members, and practitioners in the public and private sector can work together with researchers to discover how all cities can solve the most pressing modern urban challenges.
Creative Economies, Creative Cities
Creative Economies, Creative Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creative Economies, Creative Cities write by Lily Kong. This book was released on 2009-05-19. Creative Economies, Creative Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Justin O’Connor and Lily Kong The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years. Not only have governments identified the growing consumer potential for cultural/creative industry products in the home market, they have also seen the creative industry agenda as central to the growth of external m- kets. This agenda stresses creativity, innovation, small business growth, and access to global markets – all central to a wider agenda of moving from cheap manufacture towards high value-added products and services. The increasing importance of cultural and creative industries in national and city policy agendas is evident in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Australia, and New Zealand, and in more nascent ways in cities such as Chongqing and Wuhan. Much of the thinking in these cities/ countries has derived from the European and North American policy landscape. Policy debate in Europe and North America has been marked by ambiguities and tensions around the connections between cultural and economic policy which the creative industry agenda posits. These become more marked because the key dr- ers of the creative economy are the larger metropolitan areas, so that cultural and economic policy also then intersect with urban planning, policy and governance.
Handbook of Creative Cities
Handbook of Creative Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Creative Cities write by D. E. Andersson. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Handbook of Creative Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the 'creative city' became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Åke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this 'creative troika'. In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning. The stated policy implications are equally diverse, ranging from libertarian to social democratic visions of our shared creative and urban future. Being truly international in its scope, this major Handbook will be particularly useful for policy makers that are involved in urban development, academics in urban economics, economic geography, urban sociology, social psychology, and urban planning, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students across the social sciences and in business.
