Charles Landry

Charles Landry is a prominent figure in city development and innovation and has helped cities across the world. Best known for writing "The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators and the “Art of City Making” his work reimagines city-making by exploring the nomadic world, intercultural cities, cultural resources and creative economy, the psychology of urban spaces, risk and fragility and measuring creativity.

In 2003 he developed the ‘creative bureaucracy’ notion and argued that public administrations needed to become more imaginative so as to regain trust with citizens and stakeholders. This way the value of the public good could be rekindled. Initially the idea was dismissed. But publishing the Creative Bureaucracy book in 2017 (co-written with Margie Caust) and the launch in 2018 of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin which he co-founded with Sebastian Turner has given the idea credibility and momentum.