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Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present (Hardcover)
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Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Urban History
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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.
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