cREATIVE cITY

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Cities are cauldrons of creativity. They have long been the vehicles for mobilizing, concentrating, and channelling human creative energy. They turn that energy into technical and artistic innovations, new forms of commerce and new industries, and evolving paradigms of community and civilization… with the decline of physical constraints on cities and communities in recent decades, creativity has become the principal driving force in the growth and development of cities, regions, and nations.

                                                                        (Creative Class Group, 2013)

Generally creative city is a concept for urban planning and politics which it's stresses on the important role of culture and arts in solving the urban issues. In other words, the creative city is a city has its own personality by using the culture and art branding their city. 

Creative city is drives and boosts the urban economies by a different ways. 

Firstly, creative city function as an extensive and pervasive force in economic activities which all the industrial need to be think creative and always bring to new, unique and value added products and services.

Secondly, creative city bring economies towards a specific ways where particular focus on creative and cultural industries.

Creative city have two orientation which are :

Culture-centric is placed primary the importance of central values such as the diverse and inclusive art and culture that drive to quality of life, well-being and inclusion of community. And, the importance of urban economic is placed on secondary. Here, artistic work seems as an intangible value.

Econo-centric is enhancing the urban economic development through the innovation, creative talent and also creative industries. the economic is placed primary than followed by the artistic value. Here, artistic value seems as a profitable asset that important in economic exchange. 

Simply, these two orientation is different in its understanding of the usage of "artistic or creativity value".

Creative city is a sustainable way in creating city because it:-

1. Make people think, plan and act out of box with using their imagination and creativities.

2. Highlights and enhances local resources with celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of local culture and creative industries.

3. Clustering all talented people in forming creative classes to solve urban      problems.

 4. City that have its own characteristics which able to create a strong sense of their place, identity and strengths.

5. Increases and enhances the city image by using local cultures and creative industries such as art, hand craft and others.

6. Welcomes new people and new immigrant people as long as they can bring to new ideas. Here, show the city itself is more stresses on the human resources than machinery.

7. It makes the city become a high competition city where every citizen is striving to be part of creative classes. Produce creative human capital thus benefits the country economies.  

8. The local cultures, values resources are being preserve thus they can inherited to nest generations.  

9. Strong city image is thus easily attracting investor such as international companies which benefits the country economic. 

10. Strong local culture based activities play as an important role in tourism because tourists mainly like something that distinct and unique. 

References:

Domain 4- Performance Based Built Environment. The Creative City 2010.  Access on: 12 Oct 2013. Available on: http://www.reading.ac.uk.

Creative Class Group, 2013. Access on: 12 Oct 2013. Available on:

http://www.creativeclass.com/richard_florida/books/cities_and_the_creative_class