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    Van volle agenda’s naar volle zon – een eerlijk verhaal over loslaten, opnieuw beginnen en het vinden van rust op een tropisch eiland

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  • Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present

    Series series Routledge Advances in Urban History
    This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim the status of the city as the primary site of human creativity and innovation. So far, however, nobody has challenged ... Read more

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