According to Sir Peter Hall’s Cities in Civilization (1998) creative cities have always existed. Cities have always been places that can trigger creativity among its residing communities. As a metaphor, however, the creative city first started to gain momentum in the 1990s. Today, many policy makers and scholars all over the world talk about creative […]

Already in the first half of the twentieth century the term ‘cultural industry’ was coined. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, two scholars from the so-called Frankfurt School, heavily criticised the rise of a standardised mass culture, which in their eyes played down all oppositional expressions, styles and cultural practices. Today, the cultural or creative industries […]

Nederland Kennisland|Knowledgeland ThinkTank (KL) is an independent Dutch think tank based in Amsterdam. Founded in 1999, KL’s mission is to help establish The Netherlands as one of the key regions in the international knowledge economy, preferably in a way that creates both economic and social value. The activities of KL are threefold:
1. Together with public […]