Overview
- Covers a highly contentious area of current practical city-planning as well as academic theory-building
- Combines different methodological approaches in an innovative way, contributing thereby also to the development of new comparative methods for urban research
- Goes beyond the current debate on urban inequality by combining different aspects of social inequality and by focusing on medium-sized cities
- International in its content, authorship, and audience and adds a critical perspective to the creative-city discourse
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction and Theoretical Background
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Different Dimensions of Inequalities in Specific Cities
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Beyond the Global North
Reviews
“This book offers a valuable insight into the discourse on urban inequalities. An outstanding network of urban researchers has done a remarkable job compiling case studies about the shadow sides of cities going creative. Reading this book invites the readers to not only question the growth path of cities in the recent knowledge society, it also encourages us to invest more time into comparative analyses on cities across the globe.” (Peter Meusburger, Distinguished Senior Professor, Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany)
“This thought-provoking book offers results and follow-up questions to the roots of inequality across cities in the Global North and Global South. Few works have critically and comparatively inquired into the ideological discourse of the “creative city” like this one. This book compiles original and up-to-date accounts that chronicle the cracks behind the claimed city of “diversity, creativity and sustainability.” (Carolina Sternberg, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Hoelscher is Professor at the University of Speyer, Germany, and obtained his PhD in sociology from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inequalities in Creative Cities
Book Subtitle: Issues, Approaches, Comparisons
Editors: Ulrike Gerhard, Michael Hoelscher, David Wilson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95115-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95114-7Published: 22 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95732-3Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95115-4Published: 20 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 270
Number of Illustrations: 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology