Creative city : dynamics, innovations, actions /
Maurizio Carta.
- Barcelona : LISt Laboratorio Internazionale Editoriale, 2007.
- 160 p. : col. ill, col. maps, col. plans ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-159).
1. Creative cities: an action-oriented manifesto : The urban century ; The three Cs of the creative city ; The creative milieu ; The creative city: attracting events and generating identity -- 2. Towards a new polycentric competitiveness : Strategies for middle cities: reticular polycentrism ; The platform-city, the hub-city and the commuter-city ; Getting creative cities up and running -- 3. The fluid city: a project for the new creative city / with Barbara Lino and Anna Maria Moscato : Fluid city experiments : Amsterdam ; Barcelona ; Bilbao ; Bordeaux ; Genova ; Hamburg ; Lyon ; Lisboa ; Marseille ; Newcastle ; Palermo ; Rotterdam ; Valencia.
"Creative City is a research-review, an atlas of urban landscape and architectural projects, which collect some creative good practices for transforming the contemporary city, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Genoa, Hamburg, Lyon, Lisbon, Marseille, Newcastle, Palermo, Rotterdam and Valencia: cities creating new urban culture. The "small creative capitals" are interpreted through an atlas of maps, data, information and benchmarks useful to understand what happens and how it evolves the Europe of cities in which we live and which visions will be open in the next years."--BOOK JACKET.
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City planning--Europe. Architecture, Modern. Architecture--Aesthetics.