The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators

ISBN-13: 9781844075980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 300 str.

Charles Landry

Opis

Over half the world's population live in cities and this proportion is set to grow rapidly. This text offers a toolkit of methods by which our cities can be revived and revitalised. The new edition has been updated to contain a new introduction and case studies.

Spis treści

Preface to 2nd Edition The Drama of Urban Change * Introduction to 2nd Edition The Creative City: Its Origins and Futures * Part I: Urban Groundshifts * Rediscovering Urban Creativity * Urban Problems, Creative Solutions * The New Thinking * Part II: The Dynamics of Urban Creativity * Creative Urban Transformations * Foundations of the Creative City * The Creative Milieu * Part III: A Conceptual Toolkit of Urban Creativity * Getting Creative Planning Started * Rediscovering Urban Creativity * Assessing and Sustaining the Creative Process * Part IV: The Creative City and Beyond * The Creative City and Beyond * Bibliography * Index

O autorze

Charles Landry is an international authority on the future of cities and the creative use of culture in urban revitalization. In 1978, he founded Comedia, which seeks to rethink the major global issues for cities. He is author of The Art of City-Making (2006) and co-author of The Intercultural City (2007).