CREATIVE CITIES: Economic Paradigm for the Design and Urban Planning?

The creative city is a concept that grew out of economic science, especially the so-called creative economy, and for the past ten years has been studied by a number of authors and researchers as well as different disciplines, so, now has an extensive literature. The article initially presents the theoretical framework of creative city concept and an approach to its historical development, and then analyze it through the texts of the main promoters and researchers, Richard Florida and Charles Landry, and its most notable criticisms. Then comes a breviary of the above by 16 authors who reflect on the creative city in a recent book Creative city perspectives. We conclude that the creative city concept is a new paradigm for planning and urban design, which is in full gestation and has not defined its limits.