@article{943804,
      recid = {943804},
      author = {Uršič, Matjaž, and Imai, Heide,},
      title = {Creativity in Tokyo : revitalizing a mature city /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that  constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban  milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections  based on interviews with a diverse range of creative actors  in various local neighborhoods in Tokyo, it offers a rare  glimpse into the complex set of elements that provide  long-term, physical, and sociocultural support to urban  creativity. Ursic and Imai highlight the interplay between  physical and soft (social) factors in the process of  place-making and explore how a citys creativity is  influenced by financial support and accessible  infrastructure, as well as the sets of informal networks,  services, and tacit, locally embedded knowledge that  provide the basic layers of stimuli needed for creativity  to fully develop. The authors show how the future  development of creativity and the overall development of a  city depend not only on the (top-down) planning strategies  of formal authorities, but also on the appropriate  (bottom-up) inclusion of heterogeneous elements that are  provided and embedded within the small, hidden context of  city spaces. Dr. Matjaz Ursic is Associate Professor in the  Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences,  University of Ljubljana. Dr. Heide Imai is Associate  Professor in the Faculty of Intercultural Communication,  Senshu University, Tokyo.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/943804},
}