BEYOND THE NEOLIBERAL CREATIVE CITY : critique and alternatives in the urban cultural economy

A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such ‘urban makeovers’ lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity, gentrification and environmental issues. In light of the pandemic and climate crisis, how well are city economies, based largely on culture, nightlife and tourism, meeting basic societal needs? Blending lively case studies of alternative cultural practices and spaces with broader theoretical debates, this book explores the opportunities for a more just and sustainable urban future. Front Cover Beyond The Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy Copyright information Dedication Table of Contents List of Figures, Tables and Case Studies About the Author Preface 1 Neoliberalism, Creativity and Cities ‘Who’s your city?’: image-building and creative ranking Neoliberalism, creativity and the cultural economy Limits of the neoliberal city Book themes Chapter organization 2 Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Emergence of the Cultural Economy David Harvey: capital accumulation and urban development From urban managerialism to the entrepreneurial city Features of the entrepreneurial city Urban entrepreneurialism in ‘ordinary cities’ Contradictions of urban entrepreneurialism Assessing Harvey’s perspective Progressive urban entrepreneurialism? The ‘new municipalism’ and ‘Fearless Cities Network’ 3 Critiquing the Neoliberal Creative City: But Long Live Alternative Creative Spaces! The popularity and origins of the creative city Florida’s creative city model Critiquing the dominant creative city paradigm Alternative creative spaces Theorizing alternative creative spaces Conditions of emergence of alternative creative spaces Changing alternative philosophies and organizational forms Artistic interventions against neoliberalism Alternative sustainability and neoliberal incorporation 4 Urban Cultural Movements and Anti-Creative Struggles Castells and urban social movement theory Critiquing Castells Modern urban social and cultural movements Urban cultural movements and neoliberalism Case studies of creative city resistance Possibilities and pitfalls 5 Neoliberal Nightlife and its Alternatives The rise of neoliberal nightlife Revisiting Urban Nightscapes The production of corporate nightlife Regulating mainstream nightlife Consuming neoliberal nightlife: gentrification, segregation and exclusion The struggle for alternative nightlife The fight for nightlife counter-spaces in Geneva Improving our ‘night vision’: neoliberal nightlife, COVID-19 and alternatives 6 Rethinking the Tourist City: Contestation and Alternative Cultural Tourism The rise of neoliberal tourism Protesting tourism and its discontents Alternative cultural tourism: the Prague Fringe Festival Towards just and sustainable forms of tourism 7 Creative Polarization, Division and Exclusion Capitalism, neoliberalism and polarization Creative divisions Creative exclusions Tackling polarization, creative divisions and exclusions 8 Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City Critique and alternatives to the neoliberal creative city Resetting art and culture in the foundational economy Creative justice Sustainability in the cultural economy What is to be done ... ... and how? Notes Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 5 Chapter 7 References Index