Charles Landry helps cities reach their potential by triggering their imaginations. Working with local leaders as a critical friend, he facilitates and stimulates so cities can transform for the better. He helps find original solutions to seemingly intractable dilemmas, like marrying innovation and tradition, balancing wealth creation and social cohesiveness, or local distinctiveness and a global orientation. An authority on creativity and city futures, he focuses on how the unique culture of a place can invigorate economies, the sense of self and confidence.
He has published extensively, including The Art of City Making (2006); The Intercultural City (2007) with Phil Wood; The Creative City: A toolkit for Urban Innovators (2000); Riding the Rapids: Urban Life in an Age of Complexity (2004) and, with Marc Pachter, Culture @ the Crossroads (2001). He has lectured all over the world and presented over 150 keynote addresses on topics including risk and creativity, creative cities and beyond, art in city life, complexity and city making, and diverse cultures, diverse creativities. Further details from www.charleslandry.com
