By Stefan Krätke
This ebook demanding situations the hot city progress innovations of the artistic category and inventive industries from a serious city thought perspective.
- Critiques Richard Florida's well known books approximately towns and the inventive type
- Presents another process in accordance with analyses of empirical study facts in regards to the German city process and the case learn regions, Hanover and Berlin
- Underscores that the tradition takes a number one position in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of work markets
Content:
Chapter 1 Creativity and Innovation less than the Command of Capital (pages 12–36):
Chapter 2 artistic towns as a brand new city progress Ideology (pages 37–91):
Chapter three Innovation and data Networks in a Metropolitan zone (pages 92–127):
Chapter four Creativity within the tradition and Media Industries (pages 128–157):
Chapter five neighborhood Clustering of the Cultural economic system within the city of Berlin (pages 158–193):
Chapter 6 Synthesis: The artistic Capital of towns (pages 194–207):
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Indd 36 12/12/2011 10:08:02 PM 2 Creative Cities as a New Urban Growth Ideology The Impact of Creative Occupations on Regional Economic Success Introduction According to Richard Florida’s new “class theory,” we are facing “a large-scale resorting of people among cities and regions … , with some regions becoming centers of the Creative Class, while others are composed of larger shares of Working Class or Service Class people … The second trend is that the centers of the Creative Class are more likely to be economic winners” (Florida 2004: 235).
In Harvey’s theory, interurban competition is one important determinant in capitalism’s evolution and fundamental to its uneven geographical development. At the urban scale, the search for prof itable production possibilities and excess prof its under conditions of heightened competition between firms and urban regions triggers shifts in the fortunes of individual cities in terms of the rise or decline of particular urban economies. It is important to note that there are different pathways to urban competitiveness in capitalist societies.
The advanced internationalization and global organization of economic activities in contemporary capitalism requires nodal points in the coordination and control of these global economic processes. Global cities, in which international financial and corporate services are concentrated, are functioning as locational centers for the production of a global control capacity (Sassen 1991, 2000). The notion of a “postindustrial society” is still influential in global city research and has led many scholars to focus on the city’s service economy, particularly the so-called FIRE sector (f inance, insurance, and real estate).