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Published by Earthscan 2006
The core message is that successful city making is an art — not just a technical or bureaucratic task, but an imaginative, creative, participatory, and adaptive process that requires fresh thinking, cross-sector collaboration, and a deep understanding of local context. Its key themes include the need: to cultivate creativity to adapt to change, solve complex problems, and generate a strong sense of identity and belonging; cities should develop a distinctive sense of place rather than copy generic models; an integrated holistic city making approach that breaks down silos is essential. Here Citizens should be shapers and co-creators of their cities with engagement, trust, and civic imagination central to success. Additionally it stresses thinking about soft and hard infrastructure with the latter concerned with the physical (roads, buildings) and ‘soft’ with relationships, trust, networks, skills. Blending both is crucial for cities to flourish.
Published by Earthscan 2006
The core message is that successful city making is an art — not just a technical or bureaucratic task, but an imaginative, creative, participatory, and adaptive process that requires fresh thinking, cross-sector collaboration, and a deep understanding of local context. Its key themes include the need: to cultivate creativity to adapt to change, solve complex problems, and generate a strong sense of identity and belonging; cities should develop a distinctive sense of place rather than copy generic models; an integrated holistic city making approach that breaks down silos is essential. Here Citizens should be shapers and co-creators of their cities with engagement, trust, and civic imagination central to success. Additionally it stresses thinking about soft and hard infrastructure with the latter concerned with the physical (roads, buildings) and ‘soft’ with relationships, trust, networks, skills. Blending both is crucial for cities to flourish.