The Creative City

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City by bridging the gap between the Creative City as concept and as practice. In doing so, it provides a contemporary template for policymakers, city planners, and citizens alike.

This book offers researchers and pragmatists a series of real-life examples of successful cultural and creative practice across Europe. It reflects on the analysis and thinking that form our contemporary understanding of the creative city. The examination includes changes to the concept of the 'creative city' and explores its connectivity to the cultural sector and other sectors and practices throughout Europe. It serves to illustrate the perspectives of Cultural Managers, Educators, Professionals, and Researchers from the creative sector in Dublin and across Europe.

This book presents the reader, and the cultural sector at large, with a new reality based on the quality of contemporary creative practice. Doyle and Mickov address cultural trends such as sustainability and social networking, highlighting how they impact our attitudes towards culture and the creative city. By recognising that we live in a time of rapid change affecting all systems, financial models, resources, the economy, and technology, the authors assert that the creative process is at the heart of our responses to these changes.