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Initial edition 2000 published by Earthscan.
The essence of the Creative City is: In a world of dramatic change how do you create the conditions for people, organizations and the city as a whole to think, plan and act with imagination to solve problems and to create opportunities. It seeks to inspire people to get an ideas factory going that turns urban innovations into reality. Its aim is to make readers feel: ‘I can do that too’ and to spread confidence that creative and innovative solutions to urban problems are feasible however bad they may seem at first sight. The concept takes a glass half full approach. One central concept is ‘civic creativity’ which is imaginative problem-solving applied to public good objectives with the public being more entrepreneurial within accountability principles and the private sector being more aware of its responsibilities to the collective whole. The book threads a path between being practical and providing examples and also playing with ideas and is unashamedly conceptual in parts. The book triggered a global movement and although focusing initially on the contribution of a city’s culture and art forms it quickly broadened to highlight many forms of imaginative rethinking including the idea of the ‘creative bureaucracy.
Initial edition 2000 published by Earthscan.
The essence of the Creative City is: In a world of dramatic change how do you create the conditions for people, organizations and the city as a whole to think, plan and act with imagination to solve problems and to create opportunities. It seeks to inspire people to get an ideas factory going that turns urban innovations into reality. Its aim is to make readers feel: ‘I can do that too’ and to spread confidence that creative and innovative solutions to urban problems are feasible however bad they may seem at first sight. The concept takes a glass half full approach. One central concept is ‘civic creativity’ which is imaginative problem-solving applied to public good objectives with the public being more entrepreneurial within accountability principles and the private sector being more aware of its responsibilities to the collective whole. The book threads a path between being practical and providing examples and also playing with ideas and is unashamedly conceptual in parts. The book triggered a global movement and although focusing initially on the contribution of a city’s culture and art forms it quickly broadened to highlight many forms of imaginative rethinking including the idea of the ‘creative bureaucracy.