Postgraduate Course: The Creative City in Theory and Practice (HIAR11084)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The 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.
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| 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
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 20 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
166 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| 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.
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- up-to-date, detailed knowledge of creative city theories
- ability to analyse critically those theories
- ability to discuss real-world examples of the creative city
- ability to discuss the theory and practice of the creative city with confidence in a range of real-world contexts
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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.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Writing, verbal presentation |
| Keywords | Creative Industries,City,Culture,Urban,Regeneration |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Harry Weeks
Tel: (0131 6)51 5450
Email: Harry.Weeks@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Siobhan Byron
Tel: (0131 6)51 5744
Email: siobhan.byron@ed.ac.uk |
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