Creativity, as a subject, has been of growing interest over the past few decade. What is it? What factors contribute to its creation? What strategies can be used to induce creative ideas? These are just a few of the questions that researchers have sought to answer.
Well-received popular books - like Edward De Bono's Use of Lateral Thinking - have pushed forward the importance and power of "thinking outside the box" in all facets of daily life. More recently, books such as Tom Sawyer's Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation have demonstrated how creativity is harnessed within a variety of disciplines - and not just the fine arts - and the principles that facilitate creative thought.
Yet despite all the interesting work being done, rarely is innovation and creativity discussed in the context of cities. Aside from a handful of books and texts - one of the most popular being Sir Peter Hall's Cities in Civilization - this aspect of creative thought has largely remained undiscovered territory. This fact makes Charles Landry's The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators that much more significant in our times where culture and imagination are showing us definitive solutions to the challenges of the future.
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