Peter Marcuse
by Ares Kalandides
There has been a relatively comforting silence recently around the creative class, the creative city and the creative economy. The embarrassing hurrahs of the past ten years seem to have settled into a murmur. People and discourses have moved on and the question today is rather to find what is left of the old hype, what can be useful in future research or policy and what can finally rest in peace at the bottom of our waste-paper baskets. So when the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University in Berlin announces that Peter Marcuse will give a lecture on “The Creative City”, the hope is obviously that this old veteran of engaged academia will take the terms apart and show us what we can keep and what not. And that is indeed what he set out to do last evening: Continue reading
