The Creative City Repertoire : How the creative city as a global concept is interpreted in the Dutch cities of Leiden and Amsterdam

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dc.contributor.advisorLagendijk, A.
dc.contributor.advisorDormans, S.E.M.
dc.contributor.authorVisser, Gideon
dc.date.issued2012-02
dc.description.abstractThanks to ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ of Richard Florida the creative city and related concepts such as the creative industries and the creative industries became a hype in urban policy. These global concepts spread all over the western world and were interpreted, rephrased and applied in different countries, different cities and different social contexts. After a visit of Richard Florida to the Netherlands in 2005, municipalities started to develop all kinds of creative city policies, although his theory was still controversial, and largely unproven. At some point, every city wanted to be a creative city: it was a hype. So why are we, as a society, implementing a concept en masse, while we do not know what it actually means, knowing, or not knowing whether or not the concepts works, how it works and how that concept should be adapted to the place it is introduced? This resulted in the following research question: How the creative city is interpreted, rephrased and applied in the cities of Amsterdam and Leiden by the academic social context, policy context and local social context, and to what extent is the creative city influenced by the neoliberal discourse or the policy discourse?en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2867
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.thesis.facultyFaculteit der Managementwetenschappenen_US
dc.thesis.specialisationEconomic Geographyen_US
dc.thesis.studyprogrammeMaster Human Geographyen_US
dc.thesis.typeMasteren_US
dc.titleThe Creative City Repertoire : How the creative city as a global concept is interpreted in the Dutch cities of Leiden and Amsterdamen_US
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