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Creative Cities
About: Creative Cities is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 537 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25431 citations.
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01 Mar 2004
TL;DR: The Rise of the Creative Class as mentioned in this paper describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant, with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing.
Abstract: The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy. Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant. Millions of us are beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always have-with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing. Leading the shift are the nearly 38 million Americans in many diverse fields who create for a living-the Creative Class. The Rise of the Creative Class chronicles the ongoing sea of change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change. The Creative Class now comprises more than thirty percent of the entire workforce. Their choices have already had a huge economic impact. In the future they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or wither.
7,252 citations
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01 Jan 2004TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe cities and regions as cauldrons of diversit...Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and urbanists.
Abstract: Cities and regions have long captured the imagination of sociologists, economists, and urbanists. From Alfred Marshall to Robert Park and Jane Jacobs, cities have been seen as cauldrons of diversit...
3,270 citations
04 May 2012
TL;DR: The Creative City: Its Origins and Futures as mentioned in this paper is a 2nd edition of The Drama of Urban Change, a book about the creation and evolution of the creative city, its origins and future.
Abstract: Preface to 2nd Edition The Drama of Urban Change * Introduction to 2nd Edition The Creative City: Its Origins and Futures * Part I: Urban Groundshifts * Rediscovering Urban Creativity * Urban Problems, Creative Solutions * The New Thinking * Part II: The Dynamics of Urban Creativity * Creative Urban Transformations * Foundations of the Creative City * The Creative Milieu * Part III: A Conceptual Toolkit of Urban Creativity * Getting Creative Planning Started * Rediscovering Urban Creativity * Assessing and Sustaining the Creative Process * Part IV: The Creative City and Beyond * The Creative City and Beyond * Bibliography * Index
1,569 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a broad and occasionally polemical meditation on the nature and significance of creative cities in the context of the so-called new economy and trace out the connections of these phenomena to recent shifts in technologies, structures of production, labor markets, and the dynamics of locational agglomeration.
Abstract: This article represents a broad and occasionally polemical meditation on the nature and significance of creative cities. I seek to situate the concept of creative cities within the context of the so-called new economy and to trace out the connections of these phenomena to recent shifts in technologies, structures of production, labor markets, and the dynamics of locational agglomeration. I try to show, in particular, how the structures of the new economy unleash historically specific forms of economic and cultural innovation in modern cities. The argument is concerned passim with policy issues and, above all, with the general possibilities and limitations faced by policymakers in any attempt to build creative cities. The effects of globalization are discussed, with special reference to the prospective emergence of a worldwide network of creative cities bound together in relations of competition and cooperation. In the conclusion, I pinpoint some of the darker dimensions-both actual and potential-of creative cities.
944 citations