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Contents Section One: Overture City-making and responsibility Art and Science Push and pull Unresolved and unclear Secular humanism Shifting the Zeitgeist Cityness is everywhere A view from above An imaginary journey Sameness and difference Section Two: The sensory landscape of cities Sensescapes The car and the senses Transporting into a past sensescape Linguistic shortcomings Soundscape Smellscape The look To follow Section Three: Unhinged and unbalanced The city as a guzzling beast The logistics of a cup of tea Washing and toilet flushing Food and eating Rubbish Transport Materials: Cement, asphalt and steel The ecological footprint Urban Logistics Has decivilization started? The geography of misery Organized crime and the rule of fear People trafficking and the sex trade The human cost of change Grinding poverty and stolen childhood Filth Prisons and borders Tourism and its discontents Cultural prosperity amongst poverty Learning from Katha Geography of desire Ordinary desire Pumping up desire Mentally moving on before we have even arrived Speed and slowness Trendspotting or trainspotting? The shopping repertoire Making more of the night The geography of blandness The march of the mall The death of diversity and ordinary distinctiveness The curse of convenience Shedland Section Four: From repertoires to resistance Urban Repertoires From Prado to Prada Urban iconics The crisis of meaning and experience Capturing the final frontier: Ad-creep and beyond Gratification over fulfilment Urban rituals Making the most of resources Meaningful experiences Urban resonance The city as a fashion item The drawing power and resonance of cities Forms of drawing power Cities on the radar screen Urban resistances Alternatives and mainstream Borrowing the landscape: This is tourism Section Five: The complicated and complex The forces of change: Unscrambling complexity A conceptual framework Faultlines Battlegrounds The overarching paradox: Risk and creativity Paradoxes Drivers of change Aligning professional mindsets Setting the scene Whole connections and specialist parts Stereotyping and beyond Stereotypes: The professions in their own words The planner The surveyor The engineer The architect The property developer And many others Conclusion Opening mindsets & the professions Professions have a Gestalt Mindflow and mindset The blight of reductionism Professions and identity Performance culture and rules and the interesting beyond Stretching the boundaries Urbanism, place-making and sustainable communities Insights and crossovers Blindspots in city-making Emotions Emotions and leadership Environmental psychology Cultural literacy Thinking like an artist And finally social dynamics Towards a common agenda The new generalist The Intercultural City Section Six: The city as a living work of art Re-enchanting the city Re-establishing your playing field Reassessing creativity Revaluing hidden assets: A creativity and obstacle audit Reassigning the value of unconnected resources Recycling and greening Recapturing centrality Revisualising soft and hard infrastructures Redefining competitiveness Rethinking calculations of worth: The asphalt currency Rebalancing the scorecard: The complexities of capital Regaining confidence and a sense of self Renewing leadership capacity Finding a different name for risk management policy Reconceiving the city Reimagining planning Remapping the city Redelineating urban roles Reasserting principles of development Encouraging common good behaviour Reconsidering the learning city Reigniting the passion for learning Revaluing and reinvesting in people and home-grown talent Repairing health through the built environment Realigning rules to work for vision Reversing decline Remeasuring assets Representing and repositioning Retelling the story Knitting the threads together A final coda: Reconsidering jargon Section Seven: Creativity for the world Across the world is there creativity Is Dubai creative? Is Singapore creative? Creativity as a matter of survival: Are Barcelona and Bilbao creative? Urban acupuncture and Curitiba¿s creativity ¿ and there are many more Creativity and the city: Thinking through the steps Creative ecology City-making and power The creative rash An idea or a movement Creativity ¿ the components Creativity defined Where are the creative places? Where next? Fine judgement and the formula Urgency and creativity 10 ideas to start the creative city process Endpiece ¿Why I think what I think¿ Acknowledgements
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
City planning.
City and town life.