Creative Hubs in Question: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy
by Rosalind Gill (Editor), Andy C. Pratt (Editor), Tarek E. Virani (Editor)

About the Author
Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London, UK.
Andy C. Pratt is Professor of Cultural Economy at City, University of London, UK.
Tarek E. Virani is Deputy Director of Network (Centre for the Creative and Cultural Economy) and Associate Lecturer at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

About this book
Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars and new voices. Looking across multiple sites trans-nationally, and combining theoretical and empirical reflections, it asks: what are creative hubs, why do they matter, and are they making the world a better place?
Creative Hubs in Question discusses creative hubs in relation to debates about creative cities, co-working spaces and workers' co-operatives. Featuring case studies from Argentina to the Netherlands, and Nigeria to the UK, the contributions address how hubs are situated in relation to projects of equality and social justice, and whether and in what ways they change the experiences of the creatives who work in them.
Drawing on a range of disciplinary perspectives including sociology, geography, economics, media and communications, culture and creative industries, critical policy studies, gender studies, race and ethnicity, and urban studies, this collection will be of interest to policy makers, academics, scholars, students and practitioners across these fields.

Brief contents
1 Introduction 1
Part I Looking Inside the Cluster
2 Herding Cats: Co-work, Creativity and Precarity in Inner Sydney 29
3 Curating Strangers 51
4 Creative Hubs, Cultural Work and Affective Economies: Exploring ‘Unspeakable’ Experiences for Young Cultural Workers 69
5 Hubs vs Networks in the Creative Economy: Towards a ‘Collaborative Individualism’ 89
6 Community-Led Coworking Spaces: From Co-location to Collaboration and Collectivization 111
7 Hip Hub? Class, Race and Gender in Creative Hubs 131
8 Creative Hubs: A Co-operative Space? 155
Part II Looking Outside the Cluster
9 Istanbul’s Sounds and Its ‘Creative’ Hubs: Creative Actors Articulating the City into Transnational Networks Through Music 171
10 Nairobi’s iHub: Technology for Society 189
11 Producing Values: Impact Hub Birmingham as Co-working and Social Innovation Space 211
12 Punk Rock Entrepreneurship: All-Ages DIY Music Venues and the Urban Economic Landscape 229
13 Thinking Through the Creative Hub in Peripheral Places: A Long-View of the Dartington Hall Experiment in Rural Reconstruction Through Creativity 245
14 From Making to Displaying: The Role of Organizational Space in Showing Creative Coolness at the Volkshotel 265
15 The City as a Creative Hub: The Case of the Fashion Industry in Milan, Italy 281
16 Grassroots Creative Hubs: Urban Regeneration, Recovered Industrial Factories and Cultural Production in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro 299
17 Creative Hubs and the Night-Time Economy: Convergent or Divergent? 319
18 Exploring the Relationship Between Creative Hubs and Urban Policy in East London 341
19 Universities as Creative Hubs: Modes and Practices in the UK Context 359
Index 381

Series: Dynamics of Virtual Work
Pages: 397
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (March 23, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3030106527
ISBN-13: 978-3030106522