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

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - Business & Economics - 437 pages
This text on the new wealth of cities looks at five areas: economy, culture, time, place and creative milieux.
 

Contents

Two Interlocking Theories of City Development
1
2 A GENERAL MODEL OF CITY DYNAMICS
3
3 THE LONG WAVES OF CITY DEVELOPMENT
6
4 CITY DYNAMICS
11
Culture
13
Built Form
15
Technology
18
Environment
24
New York
208
Melbourne
210
Manchester
211
4 FUTURE FORMS OF REGULATION IN THE UK?
214
5 TIME MORALITY AND THE LONG WAVE
223
PLACE The Art of Placemaking and Urban Design
231
1 STORIES STONES AND MEMORIES
232
2 LOSING THE PLACE
236

Governance
25
Property Booms
27
5 OLD MONEY AND NEW WORK
28
ECONOMY The New Economy and the Creative Industries
31
2 KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES AND CREATIVE CITIES
38
3 THE CULTURAL OR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
43
Film and Television
62
The Music Industry
65
The Design Industries
67
4 THE RISE OF LONDONS CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 19822002
68
5 THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES AND THE FIFTH WAVE
79
6 DEVELOPING THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES LOCALLY
83
CULTURE Art and the City
91
1 ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
92
2 ART MOVEMENTS AS PARADIGMS
98
Literature
106
3 CITIES AND ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
113
New Wealth and Old Masters
116
Enlightenment
120
A Tale of Two Cities
125
High Modernity
132
The Swinging Sixties
137
4 THE ARTS AND URBAN REGENERATION
143
Manchesters Cultural Revival
148
ARTISTIC CREATIVITY AND THE LONG WAVES
163
TIME and the Regulation of Public Morality
171
ON TIME
172
1 URBAN SOCIAL LIFE AND THE EVENING ECONOMY
178
Public Social Life
179
The Evening Economy
184
Born to Binge?
187
2 CITIES OF THE NIGHT
193
The Whore of the East
201
Berlin
203
CASE STUDIES
204
Berlin
206
Paris
207
Still Sidmouth
240
3 CITY DESIGN
245
An Alternative Model for US Cities
251
Marvellous Melbourne
253
Copenhagen
260
Lyon
264
4 URBAN DESIGN
267
Activity
271
Image
272
Form
275
City Making
279
5 PLACES IN THE FIFTH WAVE
290
CREATIVE MILIEUX Quarters and Clusters
299
2 CULTURAL QUARTERS
304
Paris
310
SoHo
313
South Bank London
314
Pittsburgh Triangle
320
3 PLANNED CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY QUARTERS
322
Sheffield Cultural Industries Quarter
329
Manchester Northern Quarter
333
Hindley Street Adelaide
336
Wood Green Cultural Industries Quarter
339
Recent European Examples
342
4 A TYPOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING CREATIVE QUARTERS
346
5 DYNAMIC CREATIVE MILIEUX IN THE FIFTH WAVE
358
Cities of the Fifth Wave
363
Summary Argument
364
Fifth Wave Cities
368
Urban Planning in the Fifth Wave
371
Renaissance or Enlightenment?
379
City Nighttime Policy Frameworks
387
Cultural Quarters Evaluation Matrix Cultural Activity
401
Bibliography
417
Index
431
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John Montgomery is an urban and city regional planner, specialising in the economy, culture and the design of cities. In 1995, John was awarded Royal Town Planning Institute prize for his work on a knowledge-based, environmentally sustainable industrial strategy for Hertfordshire.

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