Inequality of access to culture for children and young people in London: Culture as a regeneration power bringing the London community together

The wealth gap has been widening over the last decades and it is visible over the different London’s boroughs and districts and people’s living standards. While richer areas have better infrastructure, better housing conditions, lower crime rates, higher life expectancy, other less privileged regions are somehow “forgotten”. Sometimes invisible...

Artist Housing: The value of implementing a 'live-work' environment for artists in Minervahaven, Amsterdam

This project is motivated by the voices of the Amsterdam artists, for whom it becomes increasingly difficult to live and work in the city. The independent artists, activists, working-class people, among many other low- and mid-income groups who gave Amsterdam its unique, diverse and open character, have been driven out of the city centre for...

A Creatively Inclusive London?: Nomadic urban creative clusters as drivers of socio-economic integration and spatial quality in peripheral urban areas

As the creative industries started gaining their recognition as beneficial forces for socio-economic transformation in the 1990s, there have been plenty of discussions regarding such phenomenon in urban planning policy and academia. While certain sectors of creative industries are enjoying the economic growth brought by globalisation, some...

Productive & Creative Dalang: towards a strategic framework to integrate urban migrants into industrial upgrading in the periphery of Shenzhen, China

Creative Amsterdam

Creative Amsterdam project is focused on role and use of navigable waterways in urban environment. Project explores possibilities of using canals for shared units and elements of transformable architecture, allowing to diversify land use and structure of urban fabric, thus to bring more opportunities for creative activities.

The Creative City of Chicago

The Southworks site nowadays is an empty, large piece of land, with only some ore walls deriving from the former steel factory at this site as tangible constructions. The neighborhood directly next to this site is very poor and low of value. People leave the neighborhood and therefore a lot of houses and plots are vacant, causing a further...

Connect'In Delft: Social, spatial and functional integration by transforming Schieoevers as entrance to creative city Delft

Chances for creative talent in Parkstad Rotterdam: Urban regeneration in Rotterdam-Zuid based on the development of a vital local creative economic cluster

Rotterdam-Zuid is dealing with large socio-economic and spatial-physical problems. The plan that should contribute to a sustainable solution to these problems are as follows. (1) The development of the Parkstad area into a lively mixed urban environment. (2) The establishment of new local routes and connections between neighbourhoods, shopping...

Transnational learning in Creative City Challenge

Report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series of international expert meetings the report discusses various themes in relation to creative city policy, and analyses the process of transnational learning itself.

Creative City Challenge: Policy measures and applications

Report written in the framework of NSR INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. The report presents the results of the project by means of an interactive toolkit for policy-makers. It presents policy measures to foster creative city development and their application on CCC partner cities and regions, and discusses the transferability of...

People climate: Intangible urban qualities in local economic policy

Study report written in the context of the INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge. Based on a series in-depth interviews the report analyses the role of intangible urban qualities in urban-economic policy from different perspectives.

The SuikerUnie towards a creative future: A gradual and flexible strategy for the site in Groningen towards a creative based urban development

The shift in society from industrial towards a society where innovation, knowledge and creativity are the pillars of the economy has among others led to abandoned industrial sites. Government organisations are searching for ways to attract creative workers to their area. In the mean time conventional financial fundings of big redevelopments are...

The creative economy in CCC cities and regions: Creative City Challenge

Report written within the framework of WP6 Activity 2 of the NSR INTERREG IVB project Creative City Challenge, file nr. 35-2-07-09

Key elements of creative city development: An assessment of local policies in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

The creative city thesis states that creativity — a creative milieu — is an important precondition for innovation to flourish. Yet, the creative city is often considered a hype, something momentary. This raises the question of whether this thesis has any long-term value. This paper reflects on this question from a local policy perspective. It...

Creative city development in the Lisbon strategy: Evidence from Dutch ERDF allocation

Creativity is considered a main factor of urban competitiveness nowadays. However, while local policies increasingly reflect the ideas of Richard Florida, Charles Landry and others, the influence of the creative city concept on higher level policies is not clear. The paper takes this issue to the European Union’s Lisbon strategy, intended to...

The limited potential of the creative city concept: Policy practices in four Dutch cities

The creative economy is considered to be crucial for urban growth in the twenty-first century. Many professionals and academics emphasise the dynamic role played by creative production in the urban economy, and in particular the production of commercialised cultural goods and services. Others attribute importance to the roles played by amenities...