Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present - Paperback

by Ilja Van Damme (Editor), Bert de Munck (Editor), Andrew Miles (Editor)

Urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. This volume critically challenges the core premise underlying this narrative, asking why we automatically

Author Biography

Ilja Van Damme is Professor in Urban and Socio-Economic History at the University of Antwerp.

Bert De Munck is Professor at the History Department at the University of Antwerp.

Andrew Miles is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.