Charles Landry, Urban Innovator & Author, The Art of City Making

Charles Landry helps cities transform their thinking so that they look at their potential imaginatively and can plan and act with originality. he assesses the interplay and the impacts of deeper global trends, and attempts to ground these in practical initiatives. he inspires, stimulates, challenges and facilitates transformation. o Charles is an authority on creativity and its uses and how city futures are shaped by paying attention to the culture of a place. his recent book The Art of City Making has been highly acclaimed. It focuses on how cities can be more “creative for the world” so that the energies of individuals and companies can be brought into alignment with their global responsibilities. This builds on his original ideas in The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators, which has now been reprinted 10 times.