Cities And Creativity From The Renaissance To The Present

Author : Ilja Van Damme,Bert De Munck,Andrew Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351681797

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Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present by Ilja Van Damme,Bert De Munck,Andrew Miles Pdf

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.

Author : Constance DeVereaux,Steffen Höhne,Martin Tröndle
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783839449578

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Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy/Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik by Constance DeVereaux,Steffen Höhne,Martin Tröndle Pdf

The Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy offers international perspectives on a wide range of issues in cultural management and cultural policy research and practice. Revisiting the conceptual and theoretical foundations that have informed discourses, research, and cultural policy development on creative cities to date, this issue offers perspectives on creativity off the beaten path. The contributions provide critical reflections on different notions and narratives of creativity, examine the potential and downsides of creativity as a development tool, and integrate perspectives from cities and regions that are often overlooked in the Anglo-Saxon-dominated creativity discourse. Researchers and policymakers who are new to the field of creative cities will gain useful insights into theories and methods on creative city discourse, and those who are already knowledgeable in the field will be provided with fresh ideas and voices that pose the potential to reframe and rethink the role of creativity in theory and practice.

Author : Charles Landry
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788973489

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Advanced Introduction to the Creative City by Charles Landry Pdf

Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the characteristics of cities, the qualities of creativity, the creative and regeneration repertoires and the gentrification dilemma. Other key topics of this definitive work include ambition and creativity, cities and psychology, digitization and the creative bureaucracy.

Author : Bert De Munck,Antonella Romano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429808432

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Knowledge and the Early Modern City by Bert De Munck,Antonella Romano Pdf

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically transformed. Both knowledge formation and the European city were increasingly caught up in broader institutional structures and regional and global networks of trade and exchange during the early modern period. Moreover, new ideas about the relationship between nature and the transcendent, as well as technological transformations, impacted upon both considerably. This book addresses the entanglement between knowledge production and the early modern urban environment while incorporating approaches to the city and knowledge in which both are seen as emerging from hybrid networks in which human and non-human elements continually interact and acquire meaning. It highlights how new forms of knowledge and new conceptions of the urban co-emerged in highly contingent practices, shedding a new light on present-day ideas about the impact of cities on knowledge production and innovation. Providing the ideal starting point for those seeking to understand the role of urban institutions, actors and spaces in the production of knowledge and the development of the so-called ‘modern’ knowledge society, this is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern history and knowledge.

Author : Ilja Van Damme,Ruth McManus,Michiel Dehaene
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781487537951

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Creativity from Suburban Nowheres by Ilja Van Damme,Ruth McManus,Michiel Dehaene Pdf

Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of "ordinary," "mundane," and "everyday" practices. Far from being geographies of "nowhere" – dull, materialistic, and monotone – suburbs are unpacked as being heterogeneous and historically layered places of living, work, and creation. Situating creativity in place and time, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres displaces mainstream understandings of creativity and widespread stereotypes commonly associated with the suburbs. Contributors explore the particular forms of creativity that suburbs elicit both in the process of their making, materialization, and community construction, and in the myriad ways in which suburbs are inhabited and experienced. They highlight accounts of suburbs as places that give people the space and latitude to shape individual and collective identities through creative practices at odds with mainstream culture, and often remote from the classic agglomeration "assets" associated with inner cities. Anchored in historical and geographical research, this volume highlights how and in what forms creativity should be understood in the suburbs, why and when creativity can be found, and how the notion of suburban creativity overthrows ingrained and dominant normative viewpoints. Rather than seeing creativity arise despite its suburban location, Creativity from Suburban Nowheres illuminates the emancipatory potential of suburbs for creativity.

Author : Timon Beyes,Jörg Metelmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839445099

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The Creativity Complex by Timon Beyes,Jörg Metelmann Pdf

Wherever we turn, we find creative practices and creative spaces, creative organizations and creative subjects. At work or in public places, in media representations and in advertisements, on social platforms, in schools and universities: There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Which terms and concepts enable us to understand its multiple and partly contradictory forms and processes? Where are its limits? Gathering and interweaving 40 short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.

Author : Howard Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429827938

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Working Cities by Howard Davis Pdf

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life. But in the contemporary Western city, production has been hidden or removed, and commerce and consumption have dominated. This book is about the importance of production in the life of the city, and the relationships between production, architecture, and urban form. It answers the question: What will cities be like when they become, once again, places of production and not only of consumption? Through theoretical arguments, historical analysis, and descriptions of new initiatives, Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production argues that contemporary cities can regain their historic role as places of material production—places where food is processed and things are made. The book looks toward a future that builds on this revival, providing architectural and urban examples and current strategies within the framework of a strong set of historically-based arguments. The book is illustrated in full colour with archival and contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams especially developed for the book. The diagrams help illustrate the different variables of architectural space, urban location, and production in different historical eras and in different kinds of industries, providing a compelling visual understanding for the reader.

Author : Rosalind Gill,Andy C. Pratt,Tarek E. Virani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030106539

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Creative Hubs in Question by Rosalind Gill,Andy C. Pratt,Tarek E. Virani Pdf

Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars and new voices. Looking across multiple sites trans-nationally, and combining theoretical and empirical reflections, it asks: what are creative hubs, why do they matter, and are they making the world a better place? Creative Hubs in Question discusses creative hubs in relation to debates about creative cities, co-working spaces and workers' co-operatives. Featuring case studies from Argentina to the Netherlands, and Nigeria to the UK, the contributions address how hubs are situated in relation to projects of equality and social justice, and whether and in what ways they change the experiences of the creatives who work in them. Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives including sociology, geography, economics, media and communications, culture and creative industries, critical policy studies, gender studies, race and ethnicity, and urban studies, this collection will be of interest to policy makers, academics, scholars, students and practitioners across these fields.

Author : Bert De Munck,Jens Lachmund
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000852455

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Politics of Urban Knowledge by Bert De Munck,Jens Lachmund Pdf

This book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social movements have surveyed, evaluated and theorized the city, identified problems, and shaped and legitimized practical interventions in planning and administration. Urbanization has been accompanied, and partly shaped by, the formation of the city as a distinct domain of knowledge. This volume uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to develop a new perspective on urban history and urban planning history. Through case studies of mainly 19th and 20th century examples, the book demonstrates that urban knowledge is not simply a neutral means to represent cities as pre-existing entities, but rather the outcome of historically contingent processes and practices of urban actors addressing urban issues and the power relations in which they are embedded. It shows how urban knowledge-making has reshaped the categories, rationales, and techniques through which urban spaces were produced, governed and contested, and how the knowledge concerned became performative of newly emerging urban orders. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of urban history and urban studies, as well as the history of technology, science and knowledge and of science studies.

Author : John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000318906

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Festival Cities by John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold Pdf

Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges of economic and social change, as well as repositioning cities within competitive global networks. In this timely and thought-provoking book, John and Margaret Gold provide a reflective and evidence-based historical survey of the processes and actors involved, charting the ways that regular festivals have now become embedded in urban life and city planning. Beginning with David Garrick’s rain-drenched Shakespearean Jubilee and ending with Sydney’s flamboyant Mardi Gras celebrations, it encompasses the emergence and consolidation of city festivals. After a contextual historical survey that stretches from Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, there are detailed case studies of pioneering European arts festivals in their urban context: Venice’s Biennale, the Salzburg Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Edinburgh’s International Festival. Ensuing chapters deal with the worldwide proliferation of arts festivals after 1950 and with the ever-increasing diversifycation of carnival celebrations, particularly through the actions of groups seeking to assert their identity. The conclusion draws together the book’s key themes and sketches the future prospects for festival cities. Lavishly illustrated, and copiously researched, this book is essential reading not just for urban geographers, social historians and planners, but also for anyone interested in contemporary festival and events tourism, urban events strategy, urban regeneration regeneration, or simply building a fuller understanding of the relationship between culture, planning and the city.

Author : Rossella Del Prete
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031559037

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The Neapolitan Creative Economy by Rossella Del Prete Pdf

Author : Jones, Phil,Perry, Beth
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447345015

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Cultural intermediaries connecting communities by Jones, Phil,Perry, Beth Pdf

Based on a four-year research project which highlights the important role of community organisations as intermediaries between community and culture, this book analyses the role played by cultural intermediaries who seek to mitigate the worst effects of social exclusion through engaging communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production. The authors challenge policymakers who see cultural intermediation as an inexpensive fix to social problems and explore the difficulty for intermediaries to rapidly adapt their activity to the changing public-sector landscape and offer alternative frameworks for future practice.

Author : Sander Münster,Kristina Friedrichs,Florian Niebling,Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319769929

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Digital Research and Education in Architectural Heritage by Sander Münster,Kristina Friedrichs,Florian Niebling,Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Conference on Digital Encounters with Cultural Heritage, DECH 2017, and the First Workshop on Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries, UHDL 2017, held in Dresden, Germany, in March 2017. The 11 revised full papers from DECH 2017 and two revised full papers from UHDL 2017 presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 joint submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on research on architectural and urban cultural heritage; technical access; systematization; education in urban history; organizational perspectives.

Author : Helmer J. Helmers,Geert H. Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172265

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The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age by Helmer J. Helmers,Geert H. Janssen Pdf

An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Author : Karel Davids,Bert De Munck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317116523

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Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities by Karel Davids,Bert De Munck Pdf

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did pre-industrial cities evolve into centres of innovation and creativity? As the most urbanized regions of continental Europe in this period, Italy and the Low Countries provide a rich source of case studies, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate. They set out to examine the relationship between institutional arrangements and regulatory mechanisms such as citizenship and guild rules and innovation and creativity in late medieval and early modern cities. They analyze whether, in what context and why regulation or deregulation influenced innovation and creativity, and what the impact was of long-term changes in the political and economic sphere.