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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315233603321

Autore

Heur Bas van

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-8394-1374-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Urbane Welten - Texte zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Stadtforschung ; 3

Disciplina

338.47306091732

Soggetti

Urban economics

Cultural industries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1  CONTENTS    5  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS    9  1. INTRODUCTION    11  2. CULTURAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH    27  3. ACCUMULATION, REGULATION, NETWORKS    65  4. LOCATION    99  5. COMMUNICATION    123  6. LABOR    169  7. CONCLUDING COMMENTS    191  REFERENCES    201

Sommario/riassunto

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.