ITU A|Z
VOL: 4 NO: 2, 81-100 2007-2
Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture Istanbul TURKEY
Received: July 2007 Final Acceptance: July 2008
Abstract:
The
century we are living in is the century of knowledge, technology and
communication. Goods and services as well as information are highly accessible
in this special time zone. High accessibility offers infinite choices to people
and so in this plethora of information and choices creativity is the key word
for competency. Creativity is an important input in every aspect of our lives;
from ways of thinking to marketing products and from urbanization policies to
challenging construction designs. Creative urban concept has been suggested
especially in the last two decades in order to achieve sustainability of the
cities and so to generate creative policies in cities has gained importance on
the global level. Creative urban policy processes fed with ideas such as brand
city, and thematic city has brought about positive results. On the other hand,
the new global city images produced by multi-national companies are the symbols
of the economic power. Since architecture is the focal point of all of these
transformation and renovation processes, architecture is expected to make an
absolute, creative contribution to the city. In this article, creative urban
policies and the architectural interaction in global cities and the new
architectural terminology and forms that these interactions have led from the
creativity concept point of view will be discussed.