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Postgraduate Course: The Creative City in Theory and Practice (HIAR11084)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe term 'Creative City' was first used in the late-1980s by urbanist Charles Landry to describe an approach to city-building and governance informed by a logic of creativity, and focused on the promotion of culture and the 'creative industries' (advertising, architecture, art, crafts, design, fashion, music, the performing arts, publishing, software, TV and radio, video games etc.). The idea has gained particular currency in relation to post-industrial cities, in which the creative industries have been encouraged to occupy the void left by the collapse of traditional industry. This course examines the theory and practice of the creative city, touching on Landry's writings, as well as more recent work on the creative and cultural industries (Harvey, Hewison, McRobbie). Case studies will be largely derived from the UK, given the particularities of cultural and urban policy across the globe, however international examples will be referenced in order to situate the UK in its global context. Edinburgh itself will be a particular focus, and Scotland will be considered more widely as a case study of a nation with a particular investment in the concept of the creative city.
Course description Week 1: Introduction - How to Read the City?

PART 1: ORIGINS OF THE CREATIVE CITY
Week 2: The Post-Industrial City - Loft Living and Gentrification in 1980s Manhattan
Week 3: The Post-Industrial Economy - The Rise of the Creative Industries

Week 4: Peer-Review Presentations

PART 2: THE CREATIVE CITY
Week 5: Glasgow - Creative City
Week 6: Public Space and the Social Life of Creative Cities

PART 3: ART IN THE CREATIVE CITY
Week 7: Art Institutions and Culture-Led Regeneration
Week 8: Artists' Interventions into the City

PART 4: CASE STUDIES
Week 9: Liverpool - Biennial City
Week 10: Edinburgh - Heritage City

Week 11: Conclusions
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  20
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 166 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Writing 50%
Discussion 50%

Upon successful completion of this course, students:

- Will have acquired an in-depth knowledge of the theory and practice of the creative city, as well as related issues such as the creative industries, regeneration and gentrification.
- Will have learned to think critically about the urban environment and culture's role therein.
- Will have gained skills to analyse, read and critique the city, and to adapt art-historical methods to the study of the urban environment.
- Will have gained an awareness of key developments in urban and cultural policy since the 1980s.
- Will have begun to develop the capacity to research, structure and present their own arguments and methodological positions independently.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. up-to-date, detailed knowledge of creative city theories
  2. ability to analyse critically those theories
  3. ability to discuss real-world examples of the creative city
  4. ability to discuss the theory and practice of the creative city with confidence in a range of real-world contexts
Reading List
Selected Bibliography

Deutsche, Rosalyn, and Cara Gendel Ryan. 'The Fine Art of Gentrification'. October 31 (1984): 91-111.
Florida, Richard L. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Harvey, David. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. London: Verso, 2012.
Hartley, John. Creative Industries. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
Hewison, Robert. Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain. London: Verso, 2014. 31-62.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. London: Pimlico, 2000.
Landry, Charles. The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators. London: Earthscan, 2000.
Lees, Loretta, Tom Slater, and Elvin K. Wyly, eds. The Gentrification Reader. London: Routledge, 2010.
McRobbie, Angela. Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries. Cambridge: Polity, 2016.
Miles, Malcolm, Iain Borden, and Tim Hall. The City Cultures Reader. London: Routledge, 2000.
Miles, Malcolm. Cities and Cultures. London: Routledge, 2007.
Mould, Oli. Urban Subversion and the Creative City. London: Routledge, 2016.
Sassen, Saskia. 'Does the City Have Speech?' Public Culture 25, no. 2 (2013): 209-21.
Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. London: Penguin, 2002. 3-27.
Zukin, Sharon. Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change. Baltimore; London: John Hopkins University Press, 1982. 58-81.

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Writing, verbal presentation
KeywordsCreative Industries,City,Culture,Urban,Regeneration
Contacts
Course organiserDr Harry Weeks
Tel: (0131 6)51 5450
Email:
Course secretaryMiss Siobhan Byron
Tel: (0131 6)51 5744
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