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Documentary : “Creativity and the capitalist city. A struggle for affordable space in Amsterdam” a film by Tino Buchholz

Text from the official webpage of the documentary :  

“Creativity is fancy, glamorous and desirable. Who can be against creativity? At the same time it is used selectively for economic purposes and consists of precarious and hard work.

In this film, the search for creativity is linked to existential struggles for affordable housing and working space in Amsterdam, such as temporary accommodation, squatting, anti-squatting and some institutional synthesis: “breeding places” Amsterdam.

This film is more than a local documentary on Amsterdam. It explores the latest urban re-/development pattern in advanced Western capitalist cities. The hype around the creative city began already a decade ago, it is global in scope and about to reach its peak. After Richard Florida’s influential book “The Rise of the Creative Class” (2002) creativity has advanced to be the role model of urban regeneration:The New American Dream.

 The whole film is watchable here : http://www.creativecapitalistcity.org/#!prettyPhoto


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Julien Paris (1 octobre 2012). Documentary : “Creativity and the capitalist city. A struggle for affordable space in Amsterdam” a film by Tino Buchholz. « Devam edecek... ». Consulté le 7 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/njmr


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