1st Edition

Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present

Edited By Ilja Van Damme, Bert De Munck, Andrew Miles Copyright 2018
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Part I: Introductions





1. Cities of a Lesser God: Opening the Black-Box of Creative Cities and Their Agency



[Ilja Van Damme and Bert De Munck]





2. Reflections on the Origins, Interpretations and Development of the Creative City Idea



[Franco Bianchini]





Part II: From the Renaissance to Industrialisation





3. The Urban Imaginary as a Social and Economic Factor: Renaissance Cities and the Fabrication of Quality, Fifteenth-Seventeenth Century



[Bert De Munck and Anna Bellavitis]





4. In Search of the New Rome?: Creative Cities and Early Modern Travel Behaviour



[Gerrit Verhoeven]





5. Cultural Creativity and Symbolic Economy in Early Modern Naples: Music and Theatre as Cultural Industries



[Alida Clemente and Rossella del Prete]





6. Mirroring Two Golden Ages: Values and Visions in Seventeenth- and Nineteenth- Century Amsterdam



[Claartje Rasterhoff]





7. Manufacturing Innovation as Spatial Culture: Sheffield’s Cutlery Industry c.1750-1900



[Sam Griffiths]





8. Paris and Bologna in the Nineteenth Century: A New Relationship Between Urban Culture and Industrialization



[Francis Démier and Elena Musiani]





Part III: Modern Times





9. Grenoble, Capital of the Alps, Innovative City: An Innovation-Led Territorial Regime



[Guy Saez]





10. Creating the Creative Urban Waterfront in Scandinavia: Harbour Areas from Industrial Multitude to Planned Creative Spaces



[Mikkel Thelle]





11. The Venice International Film Festival and the City: Building a Cultural Tourist Destination by Juxtaposition



[Giovanni Favero and Anna Moretti]





12. Building the Creative City: London's Southbank and

Biography

Ilja Van Damme is Professor in Urban and Socio-Economic History at the University of Antwerp.



Bert De Munck is Professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp.



Andrew Miles is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.