ABSTRACT
This chapter includes an exploration and unpacking of the main agenda: city or city system here focusing on peri-urban geography; sustainability: focusing on the 'low carbon economy' and creativity: linking between personal and political creative process. Following that are some methods and techniques that are suited for this kind of agenda: 'relational thinking', a new approach to systems mapping and transition/evolutionary analysis and 'relational visualization': a new approach to multiple channels of dialogue and experiential process. The visualization shows a series of dialogues or exchanges between the key actors in a complex set of relationships, in this typical system of innovation in the peri-urban situation. The creativity agenda brought together a theoretical approach to urban studies, with a very practical menu for action by policy-makers keen to get their city moving upwards in global urban hierarchy. It is clear that in order to promote social economic and political innovation; cities will need wider forms of cultural creativity and social enterprise.
