Handbook of Creative Cities

Edited by David Andersson, Åke E. Andersson and Charlotta Mellander

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Abstract: 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 policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist åke 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781849801508
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Analysing Creative Cities

David Andersson and Charlotta Mellander

Ch 2 Creative People Need Creative Cities

åke E. Andersson

Ch 3 The Creative Class Paradigm

Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler

Ch 4 Big-C Creativity in the Big City

Dean Keith Simonton

Ch 5 Clusters, Networks and Creativity

Charlie Karlsson

Ch 6 The Open City

Peter Jason Rentfrow

Ch 7 The Value of Creativity

Todd Gabe

Ch 8 Understanding Canada’s Evolving Design Economy

Tara Vinodrai

Ch 9 Technology, Talent and Tolerance and Inter-regional Migration in Canada

Karen M. King

Ch 10 Higher Education and the Creative City

Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian

Ch 11 Research Nodes and Networks

Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and Søren Find

Ch 12 Scenes, Innovation, and Urban Development

Dan Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul

Ch 13 The Arts: Not Just Artists (and Vice Versa)

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick

Ch 14 The Creative Potential of Network Cities

David F. Batten

Ch 15 Why Being There Matters: Finnish Professionals in Silicon Valley

Carol Marie Kiriakos

Ch 16 Creative Cities Need Less Government

David Andersson

Ch 17 Land-use Regulation for the Creative City

Stefano Moroni

Ch 18 The Emergence of Vancouver as a Creative City

Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick

Ch 19 Cultivating Creativity: Market Creation of Agglomeration Economies

Randall Holcombe

Ch 20 The Sociability and Morality of Market Settlements

Arielle John and Virgil Storr

Ch 21 Creative Environments: The Case for Local Economic Diversity

Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppälä

Ch 22 Does Density Matter?

Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda

Ch 23 Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region

Börje Johansson and Johan Klaesson

Ch 24 The Creative City and its Distributional Consequences: The Case of Wellington

Philip S. Morrison

Ch 25 Contract, Voice and Rent: Voluntary Urban Planning

Fred Foldvary

Ch 26 A Roadmap for the Creative City

Charles Landry

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