Management

Sustainable City and Creativity

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Our world is dominated by an urban culture. Cities not only represent economies of density, but also economics of interaction. They incorporate both quantity and quality. Cities are not just geographical settlements of people, they are also the ‘home of man’ (Ward 1976). They reflect the varied history of mankind and are at the same time contemporaneous expressions of the diversity of human responses to future challenges. A great example of the way urban architecture reflects and shapes the future can be found in Dubai, a city that has deliberately left behind its old history and has decided to shape a spectacular new urban design and lifestyle. In doing so, it tries to find a balance between economy, technology, society and culture by deploying urban space as an action platform for accelerated economic growth and by mobilizing all resources for elite lifestyles in the city. Dubai intends to become a symbol of creative architecture.
Dubai is not an exception. Actually, modern urban planning shows an avalanche of varying initiatives focused on creative urban development, in particular by centring on culture and arts as multifaceted cornerstones for innovative development of the city. Consequently, it has become fashionable to regard cultural expressions such as arts, festivals, exhibitions, media, communication and advertising, design, sports, digital expression and research as signposts for urban individuality and identity and as departures for a new urban cultural industry (see Florida 2002, Scott 2003). ‘Old’ cities such as London, Liverpool, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, New York, San Francisco, Sydney or Hong Kong witness a profound transformation based on creative cultures. This new orientation not only provides a new dynamism for the city, it also has a symbolic value by showing the historical strength of these places as foundation stones for a new and open future. Clearly, blueprint planning of the city has become outdated. Hence, the creative sector has become an important signpost for modern urban planning and architecture, with major implications for both the micro structures of the city and its macro image towards the outer world.

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Sustainable City and Creativity

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Publisher

USA : ashgate Publishing Limited., 2011

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1-476

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781409420026

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Edition

1st Edtion

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Management

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