Lleida

Cities and creativities

10th Urban Studies Week, 15-17 September 2010

Universidad de Lleida

Which creativity for intermediate cities and territories? 

Vortrag Ralf Ebert/Klaus Kunzmann:

Medium Sized Cities and Creative Spaces?

Screening the intensive international discourse on creative cities and creative industries, it seems that a creative city has to be a metropolis. As a rule, medium-sized cities are considered to be Cinderellas in this respect. Wrongly, they are seen as locations where creativity and creative industries cannot survive and flourish.  Experince shows, however, that medium-sized cities are equally equipped to promote creativity and creative industries.