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The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the handbook is divided into nine key sections: SECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITY SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES SECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIES SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES This is a central resource for researchers and students of Sociology, Cultural Geography, and Urban Studies.
Rebalancing the Creative City After 20 Years of Debate
Rebalancing the Creative City After 20 Years of Debate
INTRODUCTION
For over the past two decades, cities have increasingly focused on stimulating artistic, cultural and creative practices in order to build new urban futures. Arts, culture and creativity are argued to attract tourists and (affluent) inhabitants, to provide jobs, to stimulate productivity and innovation, and to play an important role in local branding strategies. More and more cities are positioning themselves as ‘creative’ (Evans, 2009, Chapter 20, this volume), making reference to creative planning strategies such as strengthening the creative economy, supporting creative industries, planning creative clusters or attracting the creative class. There seems to be no such thing as ‘THE creative city': each scholar, ...
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