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9780754674153

The New Wealth of Cities: City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754674153

  • ISBN10:

    0754674150

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2008-04-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

In The New Wealth of Cities, John Montgomery provides a long overdue look at the dynamics of the city. Original and wide-ranging, this book will be a definitive resource on city economies and urban planning, explaining why it is that cities develop over t

Table of Contents

Preface: an explanation
Theory
Two Inter-locking Theories of City Development
Introduction
A general model of city dynamics
The long waves of city development
City dynamics
Old money and new work
Economy
The New Economy and the Creative Industries
The economy of cities
Knowledge economies and post-Fordism
The cultural or creative industries
The rise of London's creative industries
Local economic development of the creative industries
Culture
Art and the City
Artistic creativity
Artistic movements
Cities and artistic creativity
The arts and urban regeneration
Artistic creativity and the long waves
Time
The Regulation of Public Morality
On Time
Public social life and the evening economy
Night-time cities
The problem of regulation
Public morality and the long waves
New regulation of the night-time city?
Place
The Art of Place-Making and Urban Design
Place matters
Losing the place
City building
Urban design
Place in the fifth wave
Creative Milieux
Quarters and Clusters
Creative milieux
Cultural quarters
Planned cultural quarters
A typology for developing cultural and creative industry quarters
Creative milieu in the fifth wave
Cities of the Fifth Wave
Summary argument
Fifth wave cities
City dynamics and place-making
Renaissance or enlightenment?
Index
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