Stefan Krätke 
The Creative Capital of Cities [PDF ebook] 
Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation

List of Illustrations vii
Series Editors’ Preface x
Introduction 1
1 Creativity and Innovation under the Command of Capital
12
The Capitalist Imperative of Creativity and Innovation 12
Generalizing Models of Urban Economic Development 18
The Role of Innovation and Interurban Competition in
Harvey’s Theory of Capitalist Urbanization 24
Conclusion 34
2 Creative Cities as a New Urban Growth Ideology: The Impact
of Creative Occupations on Regional Economic Success 37
Introduction 37
Critique of Florida’s Conception of the Creative Class
39
An Assessment of Regional Economic Success Factors and the
Impact of Creative Workers on Regional Development 47
The Impact of Creative Occupational Groups on Regional Economic
Development in Germany 52
Relationship between ’Qualities of Place’ and the
Regional Concentration of Scientifically and Technologically
Creative Workers 77
Conclusion 88
3 Innovation and Knowledge Networks in a Metropolitan Region:
The Impact of Localization Economies and Networking on
Technological Creativity 92
Introduction 92
Innovation and Knowledge Networks: Theoretical Approaches 97
The Application of Network Analysis to Urban Regions’
Knowledge Networks 104
Geographic Scales and Structural Properties of Knowledge
Networks in the Metropolitan Region of Hanover 109
Assessment of Network Impacts on Regional Firms’
Innovation Output 121
Conclusion 125
4 Creativity in the Culture and Media Industries: The Impact
of Commercial Imperatives on Artistic Creativity 128
Introduction 128
The Institutional Order of the Cultural Economy: Creativity in a
Capitalist Context 131
Global Centers of the Culture Industry and the Production of
Lifestyle Images 146
Conclusion 155
5 Local Clustering of the Cultural Economy in the Metropolis
of Berlin: The Urbanization Economies of Artistically Creative
Occupations 158
Introduction 158
The Rise of the Cultural Economy in Berlin’s Inner-City
Area 163
Creative Cities and the Role of the Culture Industries in Urban
Economic and Spatial Development: Implications for Urban
Regeneration 183
Conclusion 191
6 Synthesis: The Creative Capital of Cities 194
Appendix: Grouping of Occupations and Subsectors 208
References 219
Index 234

Stefan Krätke is Professor of Economic and Social Geography at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany. He is the author of a wide variety of publications, in both German and English, that include The Metropolization of the European Urban System in the Era of Globalization (2007) and City of Talents? Berlin’s Regional Economy, Socio-spatial Fabric and ’Worst Practice’ Urban Governance (2004).