By Tüzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard
The inspiration of 'creative towns' - the place cultural actions and artistic and cultural industries play an important position in aiding city creativity and contributing to the hot artistic economic climate - has develop into imperative to such a lot local and concrete improvement suggestions lately. an artistic urban is meant to advance innovative and cutting edge ideas to quite a number social, monetary and environmental difficulties: financial stagnancy, city shrinkage, social segregation, worldwide festival or extra. towns and areas all over the world try to advance, facilitate or advertise concentrations of artistic, leading edge and/or knowledge-intensive industries for you to turn into extra aggressive. those locations are looking for new innovations to mix financial improvement with caliber of position that might elevate fiscal productiveness and inspire progress. by contrast expanding curiosity in inventive towns, this quantity bargains a coherent set of articles on sustainable and artistic towns, and addresses smooth theories and ideas on the subject of examine on sustainability and creativity. It analyses ideas and practices of the artistic urban for the formula of rules and proposals in the direction of the sustainable urban. It brings jointly major lecturers with diverse ways from assorted disciplines to supply a accomplished and holistic review of creativity and sustainability of the town, linking examine and perform. In doing so, it places ahead principles approximately stimulating the creation of an leading edge wisdom for an artistic and sustainable urban, and remodeling a particular wisdom right into a common universal wisdom, which implies 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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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).
Ayres addresses the future of transport in the light of certain mega-trends that seem irreversible: population growth, urbanization, the ‘peak oil’ (with the decreasing availability of liquid petroleum), the increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the search of electric alternatives. The chapter argues that the enormous industrial superstructure built around the internal Creative and Sustainable Cities: A New Perspective 11 combustion engine over the last 150 years, and ultimately based on cheap liquid hydrocarbon fuels, is going to have to change radically.
Creativity is increasingly recognized by economists as a powerful engine driving economic growth. It contributes to entrepreneurship, fosters innovation, enhances productivity and promotes economic growth. The physical-spatial dimension of creativity refers to ‘creative milieu/ innovative milieu’, ‘creative city’ and ‘quality of place’ (Bradford 2004a and 2004b, Crane 2007, Drake 2003, Evans 2009, Florida 2002, Foord 2008, Hall 2000, Jones 2007, Landry 2000 and 2007, Musterd et al. 2007, UNCTAD 2008, Wu 2005, Yip 2007).