Full Description
The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years. A creative city is supposed to develop imaginative and innovative solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental problems: economic stagnancy, urban shrinkage, social segregation, global competition or more. Cities and regions around the world are trying to develop, facilitate or promote concentrations of creative, innovative and/or knowledge-intensive industries in order to become more competitive. These places are seeking new strategies to combine economic development with quality of place that will increase economic productivity and encourage growth. Against this increasing interest in creative cities, this volume offers a coherent set of articles on sustainable and creative cities, and addresses modern theories and concepts relating to research on sustainability and creativity. It analyses principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policies and recommendations towards the sustainable city. It brings together leading academics with different approaches from different disciplines to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of creativity and sustainability of the city, linking research and practice. In doing so, it puts forward ideas about stimulating the production of an innovative knowledge for a creative and sustainable city, and transforming a specific knowledge into a general common knowledge, which suggests best future policy actions, decision-making processes and choices for the change towards a human sustainable development of the city.
Contents
Introduction; 1: Creative and Sustainable Cities: A New Perspective; I: Creative and Sustainable Cities: Principles and Perspectives; 2: Creative Cities: Context and Perspectives; 3: Creativity and the Human Sustainable City: Principles and Approaches for Nurturing City Resilience; 4: A Systems View of Urban Sustainability and Creativity: Vulnerability, Resilience and XXQ of Cities; II: Creative and Entrepreneurial Urban Economy; 5: Entrepreneurial Creative Clusters in the Global Economy; 6: Sustaining the Creative City: The Role of Business and Professional Services; 7: Megacities, Regions, and Creativity: Geography of Talent in China; III: Urban Cultural Landscape and Creative Milieu; 8: Creativity, Culture and Urban Milieux; 9: Creativity: The Strategic Role of Cultural Landscapes; 10: Cultural Heritage and Creative Cities: An Economic Evaluation Perspective 1; 11: Cities as Creative Hubs: From Instrumental to Functional Values of Culture-led Local Development 1; 12: Rural Areas as Creative Milieus: Evidence from Europe; IV: Creative Cities: New Methodological Approaches and Planning Instruments; 13: City Design, Creativity, Sustainability; 14: The Urban Metabolic Pattern: Dynamics and Sustainability; 15: Exploring Creative Cities for Sustainability: Towards Applications of Relational Visualization; 16: Innovative Geospatial-visualization Techniques to Collect Creative Input in Participatory and Sustainable City Planning; 17: Creative Urban Transport; 18: Sustainable Cities with Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives - Theory and Practice in Japan 1
