Cities need to know how well they are doing and evaluating cities is becoming a phenomenon. The Creative City Index assesses the creative pulse of places by exploring their urban dynamics, processes and projects.Cities are only creative if they display a culture, a set of attitudes and a mind-set open to imaginative thinking, visible in all sorts of initiatives.

Charles Landry is an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. He invented the concept of the Creative City in the late 1980’s. This became a global movement and changed the way cities thought about their capabilities and resources.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx