By Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard

The idea of 'creative towns' - the place cultural actions and inventive and cultural industries play an important position in aiding city creativity and contributing to the recent inventive economic climate - has develop into vital to so much neighborhood and concrete improvement concepts lately. an artistic urban is meant to improve ingenious and leading edge options to a variety of social, monetary and environmental difficulties: monetary stagnancy, city shrinkage, social segregation, international festival or extra. towns and areas world wide are attempting to increase, facilitate or advertise concentrations of inventive, leading edge and/or knowledge-intensive industries as a way to turn into extra aggressive. those locations are searching for new techniques to mix fiscal improvement with caliber of position that might elevate fiscal productiveness and inspire progress. by contrast expanding curiosity in artistic towns, this quantity bargains a coherent set of articles on sustainable and artistic towns, and addresses glossy theories and ideas in relation to examine on sustainability and creativity. It analyses ideas and practices of the inventive urban for the formula of guidelines and proposals in the direction of the sustainable urban. It brings jointly top teachers with assorted techniques from various disciplines to supply a accomplished and holistic assessment of creativity and sustainability of town, linking learn and perform. In doing so, it places ahead principles approximately stimulating the construction of an cutting edge wisdom for an inventive and sustainable urban, and reworking a selected wisdom right into a basic universal wisdom, which means top destiny coverage activities, decision-making strategies and offerings for the swap in the direction of a human sustainable improvement of the town.

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The chapter proposes to relate the concepts of creativity and sustainability to the geopolitical context, as a background context of urban design. Through an interpretation of stages of development, the chapter examines theories that played a role in directing design choices, city plans and architecture for the city, reflects on the culture of city living in the reconstruction plan after the Second World War, interprets the epochal revolution that occurred in the post-industrial age as global and comprehensive, explores significant city signs related to a floating society of minorities that recognize mutual dignity and meaningfulness values, and finally addresses planning culture in the present age, described as the stage of production and financial disintegration, and the role of creativity in highlighting sustainable goals.

Nearness to global financial centres, a major international airport, telecommunication services and other service suppliers and clients, and the availability of an international labour pool are also important considerations (Musterd et al. 2007, Sassen 2001). Soft infrastructure, on the other hand, includes a highly skilled and flexible labour force, a culture of entrepreneurship, a high-quality and attractive living environment, cultural richness and tolerance of alternative lifestyles and/or diversity, a lively cultural scene, the creation of meeting places for business and leisure purposes, education and social support systems, research resources and the support of networks and marketing (Evans 2009, Foord 2008, Musterd et al.

Creative Cities: Context and Perspectives 23 In recent years, there has been a shift from a more traditional concept of culture and cultural industries as linked to the classical fine arts towards an understanding of creative industries that centres on the productive and innovative capacity of knowledge and information (Askerud 2007, Cunningham 2002, Cooke and Lazeretti 2008, Evans 2009, UNCTAD 2004). In this sense, creative industries are more open to trade and exchange and are positioned at the crossroads between the arts, business and technology (UNCTAD, 2004).

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