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The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators, Charles Landry, (2nd ed. 2008)

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From Charles Landry’s page on Wikipedia

  • He contrasts the urban engineering approach to cities with creative city making. In the former there is a focus on the physical infrastructure or the hardware of the city, in the latter equal attention is paid to both hardware and software issues. Software is the human dynamics of a place, its connections and relationships as well as atmosphere.

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  • Introduction to 2nd Edition  The Creative City: Its Origins and Futures
    • The Original Idea
    • From Urban Engineering to Creative City-making
    • Creativity as a Currency
    • Creativities: Individual, Organizational and City-wide
    • The Need for Creativity
    • The Power of Cultural Resources
    • The Changing Planning Paradigm
    • People as Assets
      • Making the best of urban assets
    • Leadership: The Asset of Assets
    • The Creative Class
    • The Creative Economy
    • Clustering and Creative Quarters
    • Activating Creative Assets
    • Orchestrating Soft Assets
      • Iconics
      • Design consciousness/awareness  xliii
      • Eco-awareness
      • Art and artistic thinking
      • Atmospherics and experience
      • Associational richness and resonance creation
      • Cultural depth
      • Networking capacity
      • Communication and language skills
    • The Balances Urban Scorecard
    • Where Next?
  • Part One: Urban Groundshifts
    • 1 Rediscovering Urban Creativity
      • Why are some cities successful?
      • Culture moving centre stage
      • The varieties of creativity
    • 2 Urban Problems, Creative Solutions
      • The contemporary city
      • Fault-lines in urbanism
    • 3 The New Thinking
      • Innovative thinking for changing cities
      • Imagine a city
  • Part Two: The Dynamics of Urban Creativity
    • 4 Creative Urban Transformations
      • Embedding a culture of creativity in a smaller city: The Creative Town Initiative.
      • Helsinki: Uncovering a hidden resource
      • Innovation in a non-innovative setting: Emscher Park
      • Seeding innovation: The Urban Pilot Programme
    • 5 Foundations of the Creative City
      • Embedding creativity into the genetic code: The preconditions
      • Personal qualities
      • Will and leadership
      • Human diversity and access to varied talent: Mixing people
      • Organizational culture
      • Fostering strong local identity
      • Urban spaces and facilities: pp119
      • Networking and associative structures
    • 6 The Creative Milieu
      • Origins of interest
      • What is a creative milieu
      • Harnessing the triggers of creativity pp142
      • Conclusion
  • Part Three: A Conceptual Toolkit of Urban Creativity
    • 7 Getting Creative Planning Started
      • What is a conceptual toolkit?
      • The Creative City strategy method
      • Culture and creativity
      • Getting the ideas factory going: Creative tools and techniques
      • Civic creativity
    • 8 Rediscovering Urban Creativity
      • The urban innovations matrix
      • Lifecycle thinking
        • pp206 Table8.1 Economic regeneration
          • Good practice: Refurbishment of industrial buildings
            • for multipurpose uses from offices, to arts centres or exhibition spaces to housing,  1980s onwards
        • pp207 Table 8.2 Environment
        • pp209 Table 8.4 Evaluation
      • Urban R&D
    • 9 Assessing and Sustaining the Creative Process
      • The cycle of urban creativity
      • The Creative City Development Scale
      • New indicators for creative cities
      • Urbanism and urban literacy
  • Part Four: The Creative City and Beyond
    • 10 The Creative City and Beyond
      • Contours of the next wave of creativity and innovation
      • Towards the Learning City
      • From planning to urban strategy making