- Creative Economy demands the Authentic City   435 kb by    Beese, Thomas F. E. | tbeese@stadt.bamberg.de    Short Outline The enormous density of culture and creativity in the Town of Bamberg can only be explained by the inspiring atmosphere of the World Heritage Town. So winners of the globalisation will be the historic towns. Abstract Creative Economy demands the Authentic City The enormous density of culture and creativity in the Town of Bamberg can only be explained by the inspiring atmosphere of the World Heritage Town. So winners of the globalisation will be the historic towns. Creative Economy as a sustainable new economic reality covers a wide range from the traditional artists to the creative brains of high-end-technologies. Both, artists and engineers, need a special atmosphere to work. And both also need the exchange between each other. Both linked together create a cluster of creativity. The urban space which is needed to develop a cluster of creativity has first of all to be authentic. In a time of globalisation everything can be made everywhere. Everything can be built everywhere. Every hotel-room worldwide looks the same. This is perfect for globalisation on a mediocre level. But what is the creativity looking for? Where are the places the creative heads are going to? Clusters of Creativity are authentic historic Cities with authentic cultural life. Authentic buildings which are at least 200 years are a resource which is strictly limited in this world. Towns which are created of hundreds of these buildings are even more rare. These towns will be the winners of the globalisation. Globalisation brings the comeback of authentic historic towns full of cultural life. Only these places give creative economy the inspiration it needs. The World Heritage City of Bamberg for example has a symphonic orchestra, a theatre, a university, an international artists residence and many more cultural highlights on one side, many contemporary authors, painters, craftsmen are living here on the second side and on the third side the creative heads of electronic and mechanic industry are inventing the worldwide-high-tech technology here. But this place has less than 80.000 inhabitants! This density of culture and creativity can only be explained by the inspiring atmosphere of the World Heritage Town. Keywords Creativity Economy Arts Culture Historic Towns World Heritage Cluster of Creativity Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2005: Making Spaces for the Creative Economy   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper