Urban Subversion and the Creative City

Name: Urban Subversion and the Creative City
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Urban Subversion and the Creative CityAuthor(s): Oli Mould\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138797048, 978-1138797048\nSynopsis\nCheck out the author's video to find out more about the book: [url]\n\nThis book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital C, and argues for a creative city with a small c via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. \n\nThe book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy framework of creativity that includes the creative industries and the creative class, and also has inequalities and injustices in-built. The book argues that the Creative City does stimulate creativity, but through a reaction to it, not as part of it. Creative City policies speak of having mechanisms to stimulate individual, collective or civic creativity, yet thr.