Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Damme, Ilja van
• Munck, Bert De, 1967-
• Miles, Andrew, 1961-

Description

xxv, 276 pages; 24 cm

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.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in urban history ; 1

Subject

• Cities and towns > History
• Cultural industries > History
• Diffusion of innovations > History
• Cities and towns
• Cultural industries
• Diffusion of innovations
• Stadt
• Innovation
• Kreativität

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-10450

ISBN

• 9781138054066
• 1138054062

LCCN

2017028227

OCLC

975373791

Title

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

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge advances in urban history ; 1

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Damme, Ilja van, editor.

Munck, Bert De, 1967- editor.

Miles, Andrew, 1961- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Cities and creativity from the Renaissance to the present New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 9781315167046

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10450