Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives

Contents: Editorial preface Introduction: Creative and sustainable cities: a new perspective, Tuzin Baycan, Luigi Fusco Girard and Peter Nijkamp Part I Creative and Sustainable Cities: Principles and Perspectives: Creative cities: context and perspectives, Tuzin Baycan Creativity and the human sustainable city: principles and approaches for nurturing city resilience, Luigi Fusco Girard A systems view of urban sustainability and creativity: vulnerability, resilience and XXQ of cities, Waldemar Ratajczak. Part II Creative and Entepreneurial Urban Economy: Entrepreneurial creative clusters in the global economy, T.R. Lakshmanan and Lata Chatterjee Sustaining the creative city: the role of business and professional services, Peter Daniels Megacities, regions, and creativity: geography of talent in China, Haifeng Qian and Roger R. Stough. Part III Urban Cultural Landscape and Creative Milieu: Creativity, culture and urban milieux, Roberto Camagni Creativity: the strategic role of cultural landscapes, Xavier Greffe Cultural heritage and creative cities: an economic evaluation perspective, Faroek Lazrak, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietvald and Jan Rouwendal Cities as creative hubs: from instrumental to functional values of culture-led local development, Guido Ferelli, Pier Luigi Sacco and Giorgio Tavano Blessi Rural areas as creative milieus: evidence from Europe, Aliye Ahu Akgun, Tuzin Baycan and Peter Nijkamp. Part IV Creative Cities: New Methodological Approaches and Planning Instruments: City design, creativity, sustainability, Francesco Forte The urban metabolic pattern: dynamics and sustainability, Mario Giampietro, Gonzalo Gamboa and Agustin Lobo Exploring creative cities for sustainability: towards applications of relational visualization, Joe Ravetz Innovative geospatial-visualization techniques to collect creative input in participatory and sustainable city planning, Eduardo Dias, Henk J. Scholten, Arda Riedijk and Rob van de Velde Creative urban transport, Robert U. Ayres Sustainable cities with creativity: promoting urban initiatives - theory and practices in Japan, Emiko Kakiuchi Index.