Inequalities in creative cities: Issues, Approaches, Comparisons

Introduction. Inequalities in the creative city : a new perspective on an old phenomenon / Ulrike Gerhard, Michael Hoelscher, and David Wilson -- The cultural economy of the city : pathways to theory and understanding inequality / Tom Hutton -- Urban inequality : approaches and narratives / Ferenc Gyuris -- The ideal worker : inclusion and exclusion in a knowledge-based city : the case of Oxford, UK / Linda McDowell -- Making creative cities in the global West : the new polarization and ghettoization in Cleveland, USA, and Glasgow, UK / David Wilson -- Knowledge makes cities : education and knowledge in recent urban development. The case of Heidelberg, Germany / Ulrike Gerhard and Michael Hoelscher -- "Creative urbanism" in the French south : constructing the (unequal) creative city in Montpellier / David Giband -- Entering a knowledge pearl in times of creative cities policy and strategy. The case of Groningen, Netherlands / Justin Beaumont and Zemiattin Yildiz -- Creative inequality in the mid-sized university city. Socio-spatial reflections on the Brazilian rural-urban interface : the case of Cachoeira / Wendel Henrique Baumgartner and Eberhard Rothfuss -- Regulating access and mobility of single women in a "world class" city : gender and inequality in Delhi, India / Christiana Brosius -- Conclusion / David Wilson, Ulrike Gerhard, and Michael Hoelscher

Author Biographies -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction and Theoretical Background -- Chapter 1: Introduction. Inequalities in the Creative City: A New Perspective on an Old Phenomenon -- The Shift to Knowledge -- Creative City Strategies -- The Consequences: Urban Inequalities -- Our Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Cultural Economy of the City: Pathways to Theory and Understanding Inequality -- Introduction: Situating Culture, Creativity, and Inequality in the City -- The Cultural Economy: Theoretical Proposals and Conundrums -- Industrial Restructuring, Post-Fordism, and Flexible Specialization: Culture and Creativity -- Contours of the Cultural Economy Theoretical Terrain: Critiques and Reformations -- Five Analytic Fields of the Cultural Economy of the City -- Cultural Work, Urban Labor Markets, and Inequality -- Structures and Systems of Cultural Labor -- Contingent Labor and Precarity in the Cultural Economy of the City -- Production-Consumption Relations and Structures of Inequality in the Cultural Economy -- Culture and Creativity in the 'New' New International Division of Labor -- 'Extensification' and the Overflow of Cultural Work -- Space, Culture, and Inequality in the City -- Conclusion: Cultural Labor, Creative Work, and Inequality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Urban Inequality: Approaches and Narratives -- Introduction -- Inequality: A Normative Issue with Contested Grammars -- Studying Urban Inequality and the Researcher-­Dependence of Results -- What Is the 'Urban' in Urban Inequality? -- How Can Inequality Be Operationalized in Urban Contexts? -- Research on Urban Inequality: Shifting Approaches and Narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Different Dimensions of Inequalities in Specific Cities