Creative city
The creative city is a concept that argues creativity should be considered a strategic factor in urban development. In addition to cities being efficient and fair, a creative city provides places, experiences, favorites, attractions, and opportunities to foster creativity among its citizens. Creativity and imagination in urban activities The creative city was seen as an aspirational call to encourage open-mindedness and imagination, implying a dramatic impact on organizational culture. Its philosophy emphasizes the importance of creative potential in urban planning, specifically in a Post-industrial setting. It posits that conditions need to be created for people to think, plan and act with imagination in harnessing opportunities or addressing seemingly intractable urban problems. This requires infrastructure beyond the hardware—buildings, roads or sewage to include soft infrastructures. Creative infrastructure is a combination of the hard and the soft. The latter includes a city's mindset, how it approaches opportunities and problems; its atmosphere, incentives and regulatory regime. To be a creative city the soft infrastructure includes: A highly skilled and flexible labor force; dynamic thinkers, creators and implementers. The creative city is not only for artists and those involved in the creative economy, although they play an important role. Creativity can come from any