“I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.” FirstsMeanSometimesOpportunityTermNaturalCitiesCreativityAchieveIndustryAdvantageRateProfitEducationalAttractionToleranceManageComplexityParksShort TermTourismSaying NoArtistryBarcelonaDublinTourism Industry Author:Charles Landry
“In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city's high level of craziness - something which every interesting city should offer. But sometimes immigrants can live in parallel worlds which can exclude others and not be very attractive.” WorldShouldSometimesFactsTogetherBeautifulCultureNaturalInterestingLevelsCitiesOffersCrossesLondonAttractiveImmigrantsVery InterestingParallelsHigh LevelCrazinessNatural ThingsAmsterdam Author:Charles Landry
“The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling that they need to make everything in the cityscape look nice and pretty as quickly as possible. That was particularly apparent in the former East Germany after reunification. Then cities sometimes get a bit too neat and tidy.” NeedsLooksSometimesEnoughFeelingsBitsCitiesNiceRiskEastFormerOfficialsGermanyNeatTidyEast GermanyReunificationNeat And TidyCityscapes Author:Charles Landry
