Culture and creativity have untapped potential to deliver social, economic, and spatial benefits for cities and communities. Cultural and creative industries are key drivers of the creative economy and represent important sources of employment, economic growth, and innovation, thus contributing...

Under the light of theoretical insights on unsustainability at the late stage of Modernity, i.e. the technological system, disjunctive knowledge, autopoïesis and phenomenological numbness, and given the relevance of some of these symptoms in the art worlds, Richard Florida's 'Creative Class'...

<P>List of Figures and Tables </P><P></P><OL><P><LI>Introduction </LI><P></P><P><LI>About Cities Today</LI><P></P><P><LI>Culture, Innovation and Development</LI><P></P><P><LI>The Environment and Sustainable Development </LI><P></P><B><P>Part I -- Local Government and Innovation </P></B><P></P><P><LI>Innovation in Local governments -- Culture Policy </LI><P></P><P><LI>Innovation and Development of Creative Industries </LI><P></P><B><P>Part II --...</p></b></p></li></p></p></li></p></p></p></b></p></li></p></p></li></p></p></li></p></p></li></p></ol></p></p>