Building Creative Communities: The Role of Art and Culture.

The article argues that aside from investing in information infrastructures, cities must nurture the creative potential and community engagement of their citizens in order to reinvent themselves for the postindustrial economy dubbed as creative economy. At the heart of such an effort is recognition of the vital roles that art and culture play in enhancing economic development. Cities of the future are envisioned as creative communities in the sense that they recognize art and culture as vital.