Creative city limits

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An unflinching critique of the recently popularized notion of the ‘creative city’ is developed. The geographic reach and political salience of this near-ubiquitous development fix is explained not in terms of its intrinsic merits, which can be challenged on a number of grounds, but as a symptom of an emergent regime of ‘fast’ urban policy formation.

The 2010 Cities Group Annual lecture will be delivered by Professor Jamie Peck on the topic of 'Creative City Limits'. His lecture will be a critique of the idea of creative cities and its applications to policy and practice.