Creative city is a house for art creativities, scientific and technological innovations and clear voice of developing cultures; the city which fulfills all its creative potentials and is the pioneer of cultural and developmental activities. Qazvin is among the prone cities that doesn’t have a far distance to its prosperity of creativity. Therefore, this research tries to analyze the indicators ...

The aim of evaluating and studying the creative city indicators of the city of Qazvin is to determine the creativity trend of this city during the past years and to recognize the dominant field of creativity for this city. Therefore, this study has tried to analyze the creative city indicators about the city of Qazvin by using “descriptive-analysis” method as well as applying second...

Cultural researchers are increasingly turning to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies for visualising spatially-oriented qualitative data. This paper discusses one example, where mental maps have been employed in interviews with creative industry workers and the results accumulated in a GIS for visualisation and analysis. This technique extends on participatory and qualitative me...

S omething has been troubling me. It is that, apparently, the cities we live in have become creative. What I mean by this is that the various attempts to tackle social and economic decline in urban areas over the last few decades have recently found new expression through discourses of creativity and the 'creative city'. These discourses have made their way into the centre of urban policy debat...

Abstract The Indonesian city of Bandung presents itself as an “emerging creative city.” This raises the question how “emerging” can attain realisation: when and where is accomplished? formalisation creates friction – to borrow term from Tsing. manifests in two ways. First, through its ontological opacity (what city?), Mould contrasts “Creative City” (the mainstream understanding term) with lowe...

Mismatch of territories under authority of local governments with urban-regional activity domains, on one hand, has caused numerous problems and, on the other hand, has hindered taking maximum advantage of regional capacities and partial and competitive advantages. Hence, application of a new regionalism approach, which focuses on shared planning and management by all stakeholder groups within ...