Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present

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.

• Part I: Introductions1. Cities of a Lesser God: Opening the Black-Box of Creative Cities and Their Agency[Ilja Van Damme and Bert De Munck]2. Reflections on the Origins, Interpretations and Development of the Creative City Idea[Franco Bianchini]Part II: From the Renaissance to Industrialisation3. The Urban Imaginary as a Social and Economic Factor: Renaissance Cities and the Fabrication of Quality, Fifteenth-Seventeenth Century[Bert De Munck and Anna Bellavitis]4. In Search of the New Rome?: Creative Cities and Early Modern Travel Behaviour[Gerrit Verhoeven]5. Cultural Creativity and Symbolic Economy in Early Modern Naples: Music and Theatre as Cultural Industries[Alida Clemente and Rossella del Prete]6. Mirroring Two Golden Ages: Values and Visions in Seventeenth- and Nineteenth- Century Amsterdam[Claartje Rasterhoff]7. Manufacturing Innovation as Spatial Culture: Sheffield’s Cutlery Industry c.1750-1900 [Sam Griffiths]8. Paris and Bologna in the Nineteenth Century: A New Relationship Between Urban Culture and Industrialization[Francis Démier and Elena Musiani]Part III: Modern Times9. Grenoble, Capital of the Alps, Innovative City: An Innovation-Led Territorial Regime[Guy Saez]10. Creating the Creative Urban Waterfront in Scandinavia: Harbour Areas from Industrial Multitude to Planned Creative Spaces[Mikkel Thelle]11. The Venice International Film Festival and the City: Building a Cultural Tourist Destination by Juxtaposition[Giovanni Favero and Anna Moretti]12. Building the Creative City: London's Southbank and the Archaeology of Creative Spaces[Kathy Williams and Dave O’Brian]Part IV: Conclusions13. Creative Cities and the Infrastructural Fragmentation of Socio-Economic Space[Bas van Heur]