Handbook of creative cities

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Title:

Author:

Andersson, David E., 1966-

ISBN:

9781849801508

Publication Information:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2011.

Physical Description:

ix, 555 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents:

pt. 1. Foundations. Analysing creative cities / David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellander ; Creative people need creative cities / êAke E. Andersson ; The creative class paradigm / Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler ; Big-C creativity in the big city / Dean Keith Simonton ; Clusters, networks and creativity / Charlie Karlsson -- pt. 2. People. The open city / Peter Jason Rentfrow ; The value of creativity / Todd M. Gabe ; Understanding Canada's evolving design economy / Tara Vinodrai ; Technology, talent and tolerance and inter-regional migration in Canada / Karen M. King ; Higher education and the creative city / Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian -- pt. 3. Networks. Research nodes and networks / Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and S²ren Find ; Scenes, innovation, and urban development / Daniel Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul ; The arts : not just the artists (and vice versa) / Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick ; The creative potential of network cities / David F. Batten ; Why being there matters : Finnish professionals in Silicon Valley / Carol Marie Kiriakos -- pt. 4. Planning. Creative cities need less management / David Emanuel Andersson ; Land-use regulation for the creativity city / Stefano Morni ; The emergence of Vancouver as a creative city / Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick -- pt. 5. Markets. Cultivating creativity : market creation of agglomeration economies / Randall G. Holcombe ; The sociability and morality of market settlements / Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr ; Creative environments : the case for local economic diversity / Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppèalèa ; Does density matter? / Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda ; Creative milieus in the Stockholm region / Bèorje Johansson and Johan Klaesson ; The creative city and its distributional consequences : the case of Wellington / Philip S. Morrison -- pt. 6. Visions. Contract, voice and rent : voluntary urban planning / Fred F. Foldvary ; A roadmap for the creative city / Charles Landry.

Subject Term:

City planning.

Creative thinking.

Sociology, Urban.

Associations, institutions, etc.

Added Author:

Andersson, David E., 1966-

Andersson, êAke E., 1936-

Mellander, Charlotta.

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Summary

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 policy makers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist Ake 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.