1st Edition

Sustainable City and Creativity Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives

By Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard Copyright 2012
476 Pages
by Routledge

476 Pages
by Routledge

476 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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