Creative networks and the city : towards a cultural political economy of aesthetic production / Bas van Heur.

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Heur, Bas van [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cityscapes, texts in cultural urban studies ; v. 3.Publisher: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript ; [2010]Distributor: New Brunswick [N.J.] : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1322005338
9781322005331
9783837613742
3837613747
3839413745
9783839413746

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338.47 22

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HD9999.C9472 H497 2010eb

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20.10

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.