Jamie Peck, 2005: Struggling with the Creative Class

Su Lin

doi:10.4236/jss.2021.93023

Abstract

Since the 1990s, the popularity of cultural and creative industries has been set off worldwide, and the creative economy has become a new and important growth of the regional economy. Around the theme of cultural and creative industries, its derivative research fields, such as public policies, governance, cultural, industrial parks, art industrial, etc., are also highly sought after by people. However, at this stage, it seems that the public only sees the positive aspects of cultural and creative industries but seldom focuses on their negative aspects. This paper mainly reviews Peck’s critical analysis of Florida bestsellers The Rise of the Creative Class: And how it is Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, and makes an in-depth analysis around the creative class and in connection with the advanced viewpoints of index scholars in the field of cultural and creative industries.

Highlights

In 1944, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer built the interpretation of the culture industry, which is the production of standardized cultural commodities and destroys ingenuity (Kong, 2014: p. 594)
In 1997, The British government released the term “creative industry” which promotes the development of the economy (Kong, 2014: p. 595)
It is worth mentioning that John Hawkins pointed out in his book The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas published in June Howkins (2001) that the world’s creative economy creates 22 billion US dollars in a single day and is increasing at a rate of 5%

Summary

The Origins of the Term Creative

It is a critical review essay published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. For the Creative Class, primarily we need to review the origins of the term Creative. In 1997, The British government released the term “creative industry” which promotes the development of the economy It is worth mentioning that John Hawkins pointed out in his book The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas published in June Howkins (2001) that the world’s creative economy creates 22 billion US dollars in a single day and is increasing at a rate of 5%. We cannot ignore the creative class, which is the driver of the cultural and creative economy

Peck’s Overall Insights on Creative Class

Deep Consideration of Peck’s Struggling with the Creative Class

Findings

Summary