The cultural contradictions of the creative city

City, Culture and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 123-130

  Pratt, Andy C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creative city; Culture; Innovation; Liberalism; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054874868     PISSN: 18779166     EISSN: 18779174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Ashworth G.J., Tunbridge J.E. The tourist-historic city: Retrospect and prospect of managing the heritage city 2000, Pergamon, Amsterdam, Oxford.
2. Bandarin F. The creative power of cities. City, Culture and Society 2011, 2(3):121-122.
3. Beck A. Cultural work: Understanding the cultural industries 2003, Routledge, London.
4. Bell D. The coming of post-industrial society 1973, Basic Books, New York.
5. Bell D. The cultural contradictions of capitalism 1978, Basic Books, New York.
6. Bilton C. Management and creativity: From creative industries to creative management 2007, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Mass., Oxford.
7. Blair H. 'You're only as good as your last job': The labour process and labour market in the British film industry. Work, Employment and Society 2001, 15(1):149-169.
8. Boltanski L., Chiapello E. The new spirit of capitalism 2005, Verso, London, New York.
9. Bounds M., Morris A. Second wave gentrification in inner-city Sydney. Cities 2006, 23(2):99-108.
10. Burawoy M. Manufacturing consent: Changes in the labor process under monopoly capitalism 1979, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
11. Butler T., Robson G. London calling: The middle classes and the remaking of Inner London 2003, Berg, Oxford.
12. Christopherson S. Project work in context: Regulatory change and the new geography of media. Environment and Planning A 2002, 34(11):2003-2015.
13. Christopherson S., van Jaarsveld D. New media after the dot.com bust: The persistant influence of political institutions on work in the cultural industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy 2005, 11(1):77-94.
14. Clark T.N. The city as an entertainment machine 2004, JAI, Amsterdam, London.
15. Evans G. Cultural planning: An urban renaissance? 2001, Routledge, London.
16. Evans G. Hard-branding the cultural city - From Prado to Prada. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2003, 27(2):417-440.
17. Florida R.L. The rise of the creative class: And how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life 2002, Basic Books, New York, NY.
18. Freeman A. London's creative workforce: 2009 Update 2010, Greater London Authority, London.
19. Garnham N. From cultural to creative industries: An analysis of the implications of the 'creative industries' approach to arts and media policy making in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Cultural Policy 2005, 11(1):15-30.
20. Gill R. Cool creative and egalitarian? Exploring gender in project-based new media work in Europe. Information, Communication and Society 2002, 5(1):70-89.
21. Gill R.C., Pratt A.C. In the social factory? Immaterial labour, precariousness and cultural work. Theory Culture & Society 2008, 25(7-8):1-30.
22. GLA Economics Measuring creativity: 2004 Update of the GLA's creative industry economic data 2004, Greater London Authority, London.
23. Glaeser E.L. Are cities dying?. Journal of Economic Perspectives 1998, 12(2):139-160.
24. Grabher G. Ecologies of creativity: The Village, the Group, and the heterarchic organisation of the British advertising industry. Environment and Planning A 2001, 33(2):351-374.
25. Grabher G. The project ecology of advertising: Tasks, talents and teams. Regional Studies 2002, 36(3):245-262.
26. Hall T., Hubbard P. The entrepreneurial city: Geographies of politics, regime, and representation 1998, Wiley, New York.
27. Hannerz U. Transnational connections: Culture, people, places 1996, Routledge, London.
28. Hannigan J. Fantasy city: Pleasure and profit in the postmodern metropolis 1998, Routledge, London.
29. Jarvis H., Pratt A.C. Bringing it all back home: The extensification and 'overflowing' of work. The case of San Francisco's new media households. Geoforum 2006, 37(3):331-339.
30. Jarvis H., Pratt A.C., Wu P.C.-C. The secret life of cities: The social reproduction of everyday life 2001, Pearson Education, New York.
31. Kearns G., Philo C. Selling places: The city as cultural capital, past and present 1993, Pergamon Press, Oxford England, New York. 1st ed.
32. Landry C. The creative city: A toolkit for urban innovators 2000, Comedia, Earthscan, London.
33. Landry C. The art of city-making 2006, Earthscan, London.
34. Lazzarato, M., 2007. The Misfortunes of the " Artistic Critique" and of Cultural Employment.
35. Leadbeater C., Oakley K. The new independents - Britain's new cultural entrepreneurs 1999, Demos, London.
36. Lees L. A reappraisal of gentrification: Towards a 'geography of gentrification'. Progress in Human Geography 2000, 24(3):389-408.
37. Lloyd R.D. Neo-Bohemia: Art and commerce in the postindustrial city 2006, Routledge, New York, NY, London.
38. Logan J.R., Molotch H.L. Urban fortunes: The political economy of place 1987, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
39. London_Development_Agency London: A cultural audit 2008, Greater London Authority, London.
40. McKinlay A., Smith C. Creative labour: Working in the creative industries 2009, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, New York.
41. McRobbie A. British fashion design: Rag trade or image industry? 1998, Routledge, London, New York.
42. McRobbie A. Club to company. Cultural Studies 2003, 16(4):516-531.
43. Neff G., Wissinger E., Zukin S. Entrepreneurial labour among cultural producers: " Cool" jobs in " hot" industries. Social Semiotics 2005, 15(3):307-334.
44. Nixon S. Advertising cultures: Gender, commerce, creativity 2003, Sage, London.
45. Ooi C.-S. Credibility of a creative image: The Singaporean approach, creative encounters: Creativity at work 2008, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen.
46. Peck J. Struggling with the creative class. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2005, 29(4):740-770.
47. Pine J.P., Gilmore J.H. The experience economy: Work is theatre & every business a stage 1999, Harvard Business School, Harvard.
48. Pink D.H. Free agent nation: How America's new independent workers are transforming the way we live 2001, Warner Books, New York.
49. Plaza B. Evaluating the influence of a large cultural artifact in the attraction of tourism: The guggenheim museum bilbao case. Urban Affairs Review 2000, 36(2):264-274.
50. Pratt A.C. Coordinating employment, transport and housing in cities: An institutional perspective. Urban Studies 1996, 33(8):1357-1375.
51. Pratt A.C. Hot jobs in cool places. The material cultures of new media product spaces: The case of the south of market, San Francisco. Information, Communication and Society 2002, 5(1):27-50.
52. Pratt A.C. The cultural economy: A call for spatialized 'production of culture' perspectives. International Journal of Cultural Studies 2004, 7(1):117-128.
53. Pratt A.C. Advertising and creativity, a governance approach: A case study of creative agencies in London. Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(10):1883-1899.
54. Pratt A.C. Creative cities: The cultural industries and the creative class. Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography 2008, 90B(2):107-117.
55. Pratt A.C. Innovation and creativity. The Sage Companion to the City 2008, 266-297. Sage, London. J.R. Short, P. Hubbard, T. Hall (Eds.).
56. Pratt A.C. Policy transfer and the field of the cultural and creative industries: Learning from Europe?. Creative economies, creative cities: Asian-European perspectives 2009, 9-23. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany. L. Kong, J. O'Connor (Eds.).
57. Pratt A.C. Urban regeneration: From the arts 'feel good' factor to the cultural economy. A case study of Hoxton, London. Urban Studies 2009, 46(5-6):1041-1061.
58. Pratt A.C. Creative cities: Tensions within and between social, cultural and economic development. A critical reading of the UK experience. City, Culture and Society 2010, 1(1):13-20.
59. Pratt A.C., Gill R.C., Spelthann V. Work and the city in the e-society: A critical investigation of the socio-spatially situated character of economic production in the digital content industries, UK. Information, Communication & Society 2007, 10(6):921-941.
60. Robbins B. Feeling global: Internationalism in distress 1999, New York University Press, New York, London.
61. Rogerson R.J. Quality of life and city competitiveness. Urban Studies 1999, 36(5-6):969-985.
62. Ross A. No-collar: The humane workplace and its hidden costs 2003, Basic Books, New York, NY.
63. Scott A.J. The cultural economy of cities: Essays on the geography of image-producing industries 2000, Sage, London.
64. Skillset, 2001. Freelance Survey 2000-1, London.
65. Skillset 2009 Employment census 2009, Skillset, London.
66. Smith M.P. Transnational urbanism: Locating globalization 2001, Blackwell, Malden, Mass., Oxford.
67. Sutton Trust, 2006. The educational backgrounds of leading journalists, London.
68. Symon P., Williams A. Urban regneration programmes. The UK cultural sector: Profile and policy issues 2001, 54-65. Policy Studies Institute, London. S. Selwood, G. Brown (Eds.).
69. Thrift N.J. Knowing capitalism 2005, Sage Publications, London, UK, Thousand Oaks, CA.
70. UNCTAD (2010). The creative economy report. Creative economy, a feasible development option. Geneva/New York: UNCTAD/ UNDP.
71. UNESCO Universal declaration on cultural diversity 2001, Geneva, UNESCO.
72. Williams R. Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society 1976, Fontana, London.
73. Wood P., Landry C. The intercultural city: Planning for diversity advantage 2007, Earthscan, London, Sterling, VA.
74. Young I.M. Justice and the politics of difference 1990, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
75. Zukin S. Loft living: Culture and capital in urban change 1982, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
76. Zukin S. Landscapes of power: From Detroit to Disney World 1991, University of California Press, Berkeley.
77. Zukin S. The cultures of cities 1995, Blackwell, Cambridge, MA.