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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Luigi Fusco Girard, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy, Tüzin Baycan, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey and Peter Nijkamp, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Table of Contents
Editorial preface |
Introduction: Creative and sustainable cities: a new perspectiveTüzin Baycan and Luigi Fusco Girard and Peter Nijkamp |
Part I Creative and Sustainable Cities |
Principles and Perspectives: Creative cities: context and perspectivesTüzin Baycan |
Creativity and the human sustainable city: principles and approaches for nurturing city resilienceLuigi Fusco Girard |
A systems view of urban sustainability and creativity: vulnerability, resilience and XXQ of citiesWaldemar Ratajczak |
Part II Creative and Entepreneurial Urban Economy |
Entrepreneurial creative clusters in the global economyT.R. Lakshmanan and Lata Chatterjee |
Sustaining the creative city: the role of business and professional servicesPeter Daniels |
Megacities, regions, and creativity: geography of talent in ChinaHaifeng Qian and Roger R. Stough |
Part III Urban Cultural Landscape and Creative Milieu |
Creativity, culture and urban milieuxRoberto Camagni |
Creativity: the strategic role of cultural landscapesXavier Greffe |
Cultural heritage and creative cities: an economic evaluation perspectiveFaroek Lazrak and Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietvald and Jan Rouwendal |
Cities as creative hubs: from instrumental to functional values of culture-led local developmentGuido Ferelli and Pier Luigi Sacco and Giorgio Tavano Blessi |
Rural areas as creative milieus: evidence from EuropeAliye Ahu Akgün and Tüzin Baycan and Peter Nijkamp |
Part IV Creative Cities |
New Methodological Approaches and Planning Instruments: City design, creativity, sustainabilityFrancesco Forte |
The urban metabolic pattern: dynamics and sustainabilityMario Giampietro and Gonzalo Gamboa and Agustin Lobo |
Exploring creative cities for sustainability: towards applications of relational visualizationJoe Ravetz |
Innovative geospatial-visualization techniques to collect creative input in participatory and sustainable city planningEduardo Dias and Henk J. Scholten and Arda Riedijk and Rob van de Velde |
Creative urban transportRobert U. Ayres |
Sustainable cities with creativity: promoting urban initiatives - theory and practices in JapanEmiko Kakiuchi |
Index |