Handbook of Creative Cities
Published on 31. August 2011
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-1-84980-150-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84980-150-8 (9781849801508)
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Persons
Edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Professor of Management, IBMBA Program, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and Adjunct Professor, International School of Management and Technology, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, Ake E. Andersson, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, Joenkoeping International Business School, Joenkoeping and Emeritus Professor of Infrastructural Economics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and Charlotta Mellander, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Joenkoeping International Business School, Sweden, Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada
Content
Contents:
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. Analysing Creative Cities
David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellander
2. Creative People Need Creative Cities
Ake E. Andersson
3. The Creative Class Paradigm
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler
4. Big-C Creativity in the Big City
Dean Keith Simonton
5. Clusters, Networks and Creativity
Charlie Karlsson
PART II: PEOPLE
6. The Open City
Peter Jason Rentfrow
7. The Value of Creativity
Todd M. Gabe
8. Understanding Canada's Evolving Design Economy
Tara Vinodrai
9. Technology, Talent and Tolerance and Inter-regional Migration in Canada
Karen M. King
10. Higher Education and the Creative City
Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian
PART III: NETWORKS
11. Research Nodes and Networks
Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and Soren Find
12. Scenes, Innovation, and Urban Development
Dan Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul
13. The Arts: Not Just Artists (and Vice Versa)
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick
14. The Creative Potential of Network Cities
David F. Batten
15. Why Being There Matters: Finnish Professionals in Silicon Valley
Carol Marie Kiriakos
PART IV: PLANNING
16. Creative Cities Need Less Government
David Emanuel Andersson
17. Land-use Regulation for the Creative City
Stefano Moroni
18. The Emergence of Vancouver as a Creative City
Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick
PART V: MARKETS
19. Cultivating Creativity: Market Creation of Agglomeration Economies
Randall G. Holcombe
20. The Sociability and Morality of Market Settlements
Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr
21. Creative Environments: The Case for Local Economic Diversity
Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppaelae
22. Does Density Matter?
Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda
23. Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region
Boerje Johansson and Johan Klaesson
24. The Creative City and its Distributional Consequences: The Case of Wellington
Philip S. Morrison
PART VI: VISIONS
25. Contract, Voice and Rent: Voluntary Urban Planning
Fred E. Foldvary
26. A Roadmap for the Creative City
Charles Landry
Index
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
1. Analysing Creative Cities
David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellander
2. Creative People Need Creative Cities
Ake E. Andersson
3. The Creative Class Paradigm
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler
4. Big-C Creativity in the Big City
Dean Keith Simonton
5. Clusters, Networks and Creativity
Charlie Karlsson
PART II: PEOPLE
6. The Open City
Peter Jason Rentfrow
7. The Value of Creativity
Todd M. Gabe
8. Understanding Canada's Evolving Design Economy
Tara Vinodrai
9. Technology, Talent and Tolerance and Inter-regional Migration in Canada
Karen M. King
10. Higher Education and the Creative City
Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian
PART III: NETWORKS
11. Research Nodes and Networks
Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and Soren Find
12. Scenes, Innovation, and Urban Development
Dan Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul
13. The Arts: Not Just Artists (and Vice Versa)
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick
14. The Creative Potential of Network Cities
David F. Batten
15. Why Being There Matters: Finnish Professionals in Silicon Valley
Carol Marie Kiriakos
PART IV: PLANNING
16. Creative Cities Need Less Government
David Emanuel Andersson
17. Land-use Regulation for the Creative City
Stefano Moroni
18. The Emergence of Vancouver as a Creative City
Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick
PART V: MARKETS
19. Cultivating Creativity: Market Creation of Agglomeration Economies
Randall G. Holcombe
20. The Sociability and Morality of Market Settlements
Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr
21. Creative Environments: The Case for Local Economic Diversity
Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppaelae
22. Does Density Matter?
Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda
23. Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region
Boerje Johansson and Johan Klaesson
24. The Creative City and its Distributional Consequences: The Case of Wellington
Philip S. Morrison
PART VI: VISIONS
25. Contract, Voice and Rent: Voluntary Urban Planning
Fred E. Foldvary
26. A Roadmap for the Creative City
Charles Landry
Index