Routledge Companion to Creativity and the Built Environment (Routledge International Handbooks)

This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying and plagiarizing creativities within the built environment. The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban studies, geography, sociology and public policies. Contributors review the current field and proposes new conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and directions for research, policy, and practice. Chapters are organised into five sections each drawing on cross-disciplinary insights and debates: • Section 1 connects creativity, productivity and economic growth and examines how our built environment stimulates or intimidates human imaginations. • Section 2 addresses how hard environments are fabricated with social, cultural and institutional meanings, and how these evolve in different times and settings. • Section 3 discusses activities that directly and indirectly shape the material development of a built environment, its environmental sustainability, space utility and place identity. • Section 4 illustrates how technologies and innovations are used in building and strengthening an intelligent, real-time, responsive urban agenda. • Section 5 examines governance opportunities and challenges at the interface between creativity and built environment. An important resource for scholars and students in the fields of urban planning and development, urban studies, environmental sustainability, human geography, sociology and public policy. Cover Half Title Endorsements Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Foreword: Creativity and the built environment by Charles Laundry 1. A reflection on the interface between creativity and the built environment SECTION I: Economy and productivity 2. Built cultural heritage and local development: The mediating effect of multi-dimensional creativity 3. Impact of the built environment on the spatial heterogeneity of regional innovation productivity: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta, China 4. Housing, productivity and creativity 5. Community and business innovation in the Indonesian kampung cases from Semarang 6. The infrastructures of innovation districts: Happy coincidence or creative collective curation? 7. Workplace repositioning post-pandemic: Hybrid working 8. Creativity in sustainable finance: Growth of green instruments 9. Creativity in blue economy financing SECTION II: Society and culture 10. Creativity and the city: New forms of work and life 11. Between performativity and spectacle: Provocations of street-based public art festivals 12. The role of community arts organisations in heritage-led regeneration and placemaking: The case of LAMO and Old Town, Leh 13. Learning by failing better: Coproducing creativity in the informal city of Los Arenales, Chile 14. The circuit of memory, creativity, and built environment in the making in Gwangju, South Korea 15. Artists, arts and culture-based city revitalization, and the built environment 16. Culture-led regeneration and urban governance: The case of South Rome 17. The art of dancing for urban design: An examination of a creative built environment in Helsinki, Finland SECTION III: Environment and space 18. End of the Holocene City: The limits of urban imagination 19. Industry 4.0, lean production and sustainability: A bibliometric and literature review 20. Collingwood Yards: The formation of a creative precinct 21. Driving innovation and equity in the 21st-century Australian city 22. Flagship architecture and city branding 23. The corporate campus 24. Urban design dimensions of creative clustering: Mix/adaptation/networks/ambivalence 25. The dark side of creativity: A design perspective on the built environment’s chequered histories SECTION IV: Technology and innovation 26. The application of big data and technology in urban transport management 27. Customer uptake and preference analysis for mobility as a service (MaaS) schemes 28. Who speaks for smart cities?: Social media, influence, and stories of innovation 29. The new socio-spatial dimensions of creativity: Theorising creative hybrid-places in the digital age 30. Augmented and virtual reality and creativity in the built environment 31. Virtual reality and desiring-production 32. Lean construction in China: A review 33. Co-designing infrastructures: Working with communities to create resilient cities 34. Creativity and innovation: Revitalisation experiences as strategies to foster areas of innovation in Brazil 35. Smart city in the creativity-built environment nexus: A case study of Bandung 36. Melbourne’s skyscrapers: A case study in creative destruction SECTION V: Governance and planning 37. The multifunction polis: An urban idea and its end 38. The creative city in Australia: Where are we now? 39. Suburbs by design: Design and its antithesis in the Australian suburb 40. Innovation districts and the physical environment of knowledge-based economic development 41. Tech-development, public space, and planning failures 42. The planning of creative Paris 43. University incubators as sites of creativity and innovation: The case of the Macquarie University Incubator 44. Planning and sustaining an inclusive urban infrastructure of cultural amenities: Lessons from Amsterdam 45. Global cities in the making Afterword: From creative cluster to innovation complex: Aspirational infrastructure for anxious cities Index This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world in a debate on originating, learning, modifying, and plagiarizing creativities within the built environment.The Companion includes contributions from architecture, design, planning, construction, real estate, economics, urban studies, geography, sociology, and public policies. Contributors review the current field and proposes new conceptual frameworks, research methodologies, and directions for research, policy, and practice. Chapters are organised into five sections, each drawing on cross-disciplinary insights and debates: Section I connects creativity, productivity, and economic growth and examines how our built environment stimulates or intimidates human imaginations. Section II addresses how hard environments are fabricated with social, cultural, and institutional meanings, and how these evolve in different times and settings. Section III discusses activities that directly and indirectly shape the material development of a built environment, its environmental sustainability, space utility, and place identity. Section IV illustrates how technologies and innovations are used in building and strengthening an intelligent, real-time, responsive urban agenda. Section V examines governance opportunities and challenges at the interface between creativity and built environment. An important resource for scholars and students in the fields of urban planning and development, urban studies, environmental sustainability, human geography, sociology, and public policy.