Urban Policies for Creative Spaces in Cities.

Ralf Ebert, Klaus R. Kunzmann

»Cities have to be creative if they wish to attract media attention, tourists, qualified labour and foreign investment. This is the message recent books are sending around the world. Richard Florida promotes the creative class (Florida 2002, 2005), Charles Landry the Creative City (2000), and their data, facts and arguments seem to convince decisionmakers and policy advisors from Vancouver to Essen, from Shanghai to Dubai. They use the fashionable terms to review their local and regional development strategies, to describe innovative and “creative” projects and programmes, and to market their cities and regions at home and abroad. A city, a place, an action - they all have to be creative; it is no longer sufficient to be innovative. ...«

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