Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives (Sustainable City and)
Event Date/Time: Sep 24, 2008 | End Date/Time: Sep 26, 2008 |
Abstract Submission Date: Jun 15, 2008 | |
Paper Submission Date: Jun 15, 2008 |
Description
In particular, it will be focused on the following issues:
1. what is a creative city; how the creative city actually works, which are the key features and the critical elements conditioning creativity; how ideas turn into urban innovations; the drivers stimulating a city to innovate, the barriers and the constraints;
2. which are the benefits of the creative city in terms of competitiveness, environment, welfare, social stability, quality of life, vitality;
3. which are the key assets, infrastructures and tools required to promote creative processes in cities towards competitive, sustainable and cohesive places, and how public policy can influence the creative city.
The Scientific Committee - composed by Sir Peter Hall, Tuzin Baycan Levent, Roberto Camagni , Giuliana Di Fiore, Francesco Forte, Luigi Fusco Girard, Klaus Kunzmann, Peter Nijkamp, John Rees, Pierluigi Sacco and Roger Stough - has been involved in order to identify the Meeting themes/contents