ABSTRACT
Cultural and creative activities have shaped the competitive character of a city by enhancing both its innovative capacity and the quality of place, which is crucial to attracting creative people. This chapter considers the policy roadmap to the creative city and the challenges for government. The key asset and infrastructure for fostering the development of creative, competitive and cohesive places is a creative milieu. Creativity in general seems to be enhanced by cultural diversity, where cultural diversity provides sources for creative expression. The relationship between diversity and creativity has been investigated by many scholars in different disciplines from socio-economic, cultural and psychological perspectives. Creativity has found many reflections in urban and regional studies and has offered some new concepts such as 'creative class', 'creative industries', 'creative milieu' and 'creative city' to urban literature. Creative cities have become a global movement reflecting a new planning paradigm in recent decades.
