COMEDIA: thinking about creative cities

COMEDIA, founded by Charles Landry in 1978, is linked to the idea of 'The Creative City' and now the notion of ‘The Art of City Making’ and how people and cities can make the most of their possibilities. ‘The Intercultural City’ adds another concept and focuses on how cities can live well with their multicultural diversity. The questions the team tries to answer are:

• How we create the pre-conditions for decision makers at all levels to think, plan and act with imagination and in an integrated way;
• How we develop a common language across professional disciplines concerned with city making;
• How we combine an understanding of hard - physical - as well as soft - cultural, social and economic infrastructure;
• How we encourage people to think differently, so they do things differently and do different things;
• How do we identify, harness, promote and sustain the creative, cultural resources that are present in every human settlement if we look deeply enough.

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