Creative networks and the city : towards a cultural political economy of aesthetic production /

Heur, Bas van,

Creative networks and the city : towards a cultural political economy of aesthetic production / Bas van Heur. - 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations, maps - Cityscapes, texts in cultural urban studies ; v. 3 . - Cityscapes, texts in cultural urban studies ; v. 3. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-232).

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CULTURAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH -- 3. ACCUMULATION, REGULATION, NETWORKS -- 4. LOCATION -- 5. COMMUNICATION -- 6. LABOR -- 7. CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES.

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This book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and the knowledge-based economy by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalist restructuring, creative industries' policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation, and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies. It simultaneously goes beyond these debates by integrating a concern with the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of the creative industries. As such, the book is relevant to researchers interested in the transdisciplinary project of a cultural political economy of creativity and urban change.


English.

1322005338 9781322005331 9783837613742 3837613747 3839413745 9783839413746

10.14361/transcript.9783839413746 doi

631784 MIL


Cultural industries.
Urban economics.
Cultural industries.
Urban economics.
Urban communities.

Sociology Urban City Policy Economy Culture Creativity Urbanity Urban Studies Cultural Industry Cultural Geography Cultural Studies


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HD9999.C9472 / H497 2010eb

338.47