Edward Glaeser

Resumen: Arte y literatura --en particular la novela-- encuentran en el paisaje ur-bano uno de sus referentes principales y, desde múltiples perspectivas, abordan frecuen-temente temas que le son consustanciales: la problemática relación entre individuo y sociedad, la soledad y el anonimato entre la multitud, la libertad y el cosmopolitismo, la esperanza del inmigrante, el hacinamiento y el crimen, etc. En las últimas décadas se repite, además, la ccionalización del espacio interior del autor o los personajes en la con guración de ese paisaje. Partiendo de los vínculos históricos entre ciudad y litera-tura, el presente trabajo resume la evolución del tratamiento literario de lo urbano para llegar a la novela española de las últimas décadas, en cuyo contexto elegimos el caso paradigmático de Antonio Muñoz Molina para ilustrar, analizando múltiples ejemplos de su obra, aquel diálogo ccionalizado entre el entorno urbano y la subjetividad del narrador, siempre iluminada por la memoria y la imaginación.

Abstract: Art and literature --particularly, the novel-- and one of their principal models in urban landscape and, from multiple perspectives, they frequently tackle some of its inherent themes: the problematic relationship between the individual and society , loneliness and anonymity among the crowd, freedom and cosmopolitanism, the aspirations of the immigrant, overcrowding and crime, etc. Over the last decades, there have been been many examples of  the ficctionalization of  the author's or the character's inner space in the configuration of  that landscape. Starting with the historical connections between city and literature, the essay summmarizes the evolution of  the literary treatment of  the urban subject up to the Spanish novel of  the last decades, in which context we choose the  paradigmatic case of  Antonio Muñoz Molina to illustrate, with the analysis of  multiple  examples from his novels, that fictionalized dialogue between urban landscape and the subjectivity of the narrator, always illuminated by memory and imagination.

To elucidate the significance of the creative economy and its diffusion into “creative” suburbs and exurbs across the globe, this literature review examines the academic discourse related to creative capital theory, the latest addition to the “toolkit for urban innovators” (Landry 2000). It investigates the broader developer’s trinity to understand the manifold uses of “capital” and includes critiques and ethnographies. In doing so, the review reasserts the vital role of anthropologists vis-à-vis other social science disciplines within the “development-lite” of the creative economy in advanced capitalism.