Charles Landry is an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. He helps cities identify and make the most of their resources and to reach their potential by triggering their inventiveness and thinking. His overall aim is to help cities become more prosperous, culturally confident, resilient and self-sustaining, as well as to get onto the global radar screen.
Acting as a critical friend, Charles works closely with decision makers and local leaders. He helps find apt and original solutions to seemingly intractable dilemmas, such as marrying innovation and tradition, balancing wealth creation and social cohesiveness, exploring sustainable approaches to urban change, making the most of diversity, or blending local distinctiveness and a global orientation.
Charles has worked across the world with a large number of cities and been involved in several hundred projects. His writing has been influential and his best-known book is, The Creative City: A toolkit for Urban Innovators; a concept that has become a global movement. His other titles include, The Art of City Making and The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage, the latter co-written with Phil Wood. Charles recently launched a series of short, fully illustrated books: The Sensory Landscape of Cities; The Origins and Futures of the Creative City; The Creative City Index: Measuring the Pulse of the City; Culture & Commerce; The Fragile City & its Risk Nexus.
For further information: www.charleslandry.com
