A master class on creative city making by the Urbanist Charles Landry by Think City as a part of their Creative KL talks.
As an environmental and social planning practitioner I have been interested in the urban question, and having read the global cities class at NUS geography in the coursework phase that I completed while working on a SSHRC project.
The key takeaway is the notion of intimacy in cities which is social capital, and how to promote it through the existing heritage in the city.
The audience questions were tough and excellent. How does the idea of the creative city accommodate the homeless? And the urban is a work in progress and does accommodate the good, bad and the ugly as the Think City Honcho, Abdul Majeed quipped.
The civil society ecosystem in KL with its independent bookstores are an understated gem of its creative ecosystem.
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