ABSTRACT
This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying, and plagiarizing creativities within the built environment.
The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban studies, geography, sociology, and public policies. Contributors review the current field and proposes new conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and directions for research, policy, and practice. Chapters are organised into five sections, each drawing on cross-disciplinary insights and debates:
- Section I connects creativity, productivity, and economic growth and examines how our built environment stimulates or intimidates human imaginations.
- Section II addresses how hard environments are fabricated with social, cultural, and institutional meanings, and how these evolve in different times and settings.
- Section III discusses activities that directly and indirectly shape the material development of a built environment, its environmental sustainability, space utility, and place identity.
- Section IV illustrates how technologies and innovations are used in building and strengthening an intelligent, real-time, responsive urban agenda.
- Section V examines governance opportunities and challenges at the interface between creativity and built environment.
An important resource for scholars and students in the fields of urban planning and development, urban studies, environmental sustainability, human geography, sociology, and public policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|104 pages
Economy and Productivity
chapter 182|13 pages
Built cultural heritage and local development
chapter 3|16 pages
Impact of the built environment on the spatial heterogeneity of regional innovation productivity
chapter 6|11 pages
The infrastructures of innovation districts
section Section II|98 pages
Society and Culture
chapter 11|11 pages
Between performativity and spectacle
chapter 12|10 pages
The role of community arts organisations in heritage-led regeneration and placemaking
chapter 13|14 pages
Learning by failing better
chapter 17|14 pages
The art of dancing for urban design
section Section III|108 pages
Environment and Space
chapter 19|25 pages
Industry 4.0, lean production and sustainability
chapter 24|12 pages
Urban design dimensions of creative clustering
chapter 25|13 pages
The dark side of creativity
section Section IV|134 pages
Technology and Innovation
chapter 29|11 pages
The new socio-spatial dimensions of creativity
section Section V|102 pages
Governance and Planning