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Creative Cities of Future: Possibilities For Action
Creative Cities of Future: Possibilities For Action
• Social development
• Economic development
• provides for sharing best practices on
economic, cultural and social development
with other cities
Uneven Geographics
• 14 cities from Europe, all from Western
Europe
• 1 current application (Krakow) from Eastern
Europe.
• 4 countries only – China, Japan, South Korea
and Australia from Asia and Pacific region
• The African continent is represented by only
one namely, Egyptian city
Creative economies
• Creative economies cannot function without
key infrastructures as comprehensive
enabling environment. Urban centres have to
provide and maintain infrastructures not only
as material and economic foundations for
development, but also provide the soft
infrastructure namely the services relating to
the social, educational, cultural and
intellectual fabric of a city.
Education as the key
• Education is one of the key areas, both at the
national and the municipal levels,
• a knowledge-intensive economy is simply
impossible without massive investments in
quality education.
• Education is a basic need for the producers as
well as the consumers of cultural products
and services.
Categories of CCN
• Literature,
• Film,
• Music,
• Crafts
• Folk Art,
• Design,
• Media Arts
• Gastronomy
29 countries members of CCN