Urban Subversion and the Creative City Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City Series
Auteur : Mould Oli
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This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ?C?, and argues for a creative city with a small ?c? via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion.
The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy framework of ?creativity? that includes the creative industries and the creative class, and also has inequalities and injustices in-built. The book argues that the Creative City does stimulate creativity, but through a reaction to it, not as part of it. Creative City policies speak of having mechanisms to stimulate individual, collective or civic creativity, yet through a theoretical exploration of urban subversion, the book argues that to be 'truly' creative is to be radically different from those creative practices that the Creative City caters for. Moreover, the book analyses the role that urban subversion and subcultures have in the contemporary city in challenging the dominant political economic hegemony of urban creativity. Creative activities of people from cities all over the world are discussed and critically analysed to highlight how urban creativity has become co-opted for political and economic goals, but through a radical reconceptualisation of what creativity is that includes urban subversion, we can begin to realise a creative city (with a small 'c').
Prologue: The Man upon a Wire Chapter 1. Introduction 2. Creating a Scene – The Need for a Creative City 3. The Creative Class(ification) of Cities 4. Quartering Creativity – Real Estate in the Creative City Interlude: The Rubble of the Creative City 5. Preparing for Flight 6. Urban Subversion 7. The Places of Subversion 8. creative city trajectories Epilogue: Climbing Wooly Bibliography
Oli Mould is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Date de parution : 08-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2015
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Men; creative cities; Creative City Paradigm; creative economy; Creative City; creative practice; UK Trade; critical urban theory; Urban Subversion; everyday geographies; Dubai Media City; oli mould; Creative Class Thesis; skateboarding; Creative Class Theory; urban governance; Southbank Centre; urban policy; Vertical Vanishing Point; urban subversions; Australian Technology Park; urban theory; Creative City Rhetoric; De Certeauian View; Creative City Policies; Cultural Quarters; Urban Exploration; Creative Class; Tactical Urbanism; Creative Subcultures; Sydney Harbour Bridge; Festival Wing; Woolworth Building; Notre Dame Cathedral; Creative Zones; Media City