ABSTRACT
The aspiration for a sustainable city has introduced an original critical condition in interpreting the needs, impacting on the symbolic formalization that typifies the creative city, and its creative people. Creativity as an expression of human energy, aimed at solving contradictions of context, has established itself as a process and product for tackling uncertainty. In the first decade of the new century the necessary instrumentation has reflected on public policy aimed at encouraging the energetic self-sustainability of cities, neighbourhoods, districts and housing units, basing itself on the separation of consumers-producers and network administrators. Public policies should, therefore, try to control and attenuate the effects of de-structuring, persevering in the search for sustainability of change. Urban planning has its own specific role within public policy, through conceptual and creative processes derived from the research into the processes of sustainability that anticipate and aim for desired and shared goals in the evolution of life.
