First Paris tries to woo the creative class, now this update on Barcelona’s, arguably the world’s most beautiful city, on its efforts to bolster creativity and innovation, via Bruno Giusanni’s blog. Bruno writes: "Francesc Santacana is the coordinator of the strategic plan for the metropolitan area
of Barcelona – a network of 36 cities with about 3 million inhabitants.
…"We have been shifting from
an orderly structured and designed urban model of the industrial era to
a more or less chaotic space, occupied in an erratic way, with a rather
blurred logic and in which multiple economic activities, cultures and
values coehixt", says Francesc.
He and his colleagues have read Richard Florida, for their top goal is to "generate, attract and retain creative and innovative talent".
Promoting infrastructures is only a part of this, of course. Much more
important is to promote the right kind of infrastructures, to properly
re-design both the city and the ways it can foster interaction and
"fecundation"… "
Read the rest here.
