Handbook of creative cities / edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Åke E. Andersson, Charlotta Mellander.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Foundations. Analysing creative cities / David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellander ; Creative people need creative cities / Åke E. Andersson ; The creative class paradigm / Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler ; Big-C creativity in the big city / Dean Keith Simonton ; Clusters, networks and creativity / Charlie Karlsson -- part 2. People. The open city / Peter Jason Rentfrow ; The value of creativity / Todd M. Gabe ; Understanding Canada's evolving design economy / Tara Vinodrai ; Technology, talent and tolerance and inter-regional migration in Canada / Karen M. King ; Higher education and the creative city / Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian -- part 3. Networks. Research nodes and networks / Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and Søren Find ; Scenes, innovation, and urban development / Daniel Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul ; The arts : not just the artists (and vice versa) / Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick ; The creative potential of network cities / David F. Batten ; Why being there matters : Finnish professionals in Silicon Valley / Carol Marie Kiriakos -- part 4. Planning. Creative cities need less management / David Emanuel Andersson ; Land-use regulation for the creativity city / Stefano Morni ; The emergence of Vancouver as a creative city / Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick -- part 5. Markets. Cultivating creativity : market creation of agglomeration economies / Randall G. Holcombe ; The sociability and morality of market settlements / Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr ; Creative environments : the case for local economic diversity / Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppälä ; Does density matter? / Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda ; Creative milieus in the Stockholm region / Börje Johansson and Johan Klaesson ; The creative city and its distributional consequences : the case of Wellington / Philip S. Morrison -- part 6. Visions. Contract, voice and rent : voluntary urban planning / Fred F. Foldvary ; A roadmap for the creative city / Charles Landry.