Municipal mind : manifestos for the creative city / Pier Giorgio Di Cicco ; with an afterword by Charles Landry

Preface -- Creative manifesto -- What a municipality owes its citizens -- What does love have to do with it? -- How the creative city behaves -- True cultural stewardship -- Culture and policy -- How the municipality encourage creativity -- Civic engagement and creativity -- The urban motive -- Out of the silos -- Recognizing creativity -- Culture strategy -- Self-consciousness: the enemy of the creative city -- The creative city is the passionate city -- Passion and the physical city -- The private serf versus the creative city -- The nature of creativity -- The artistic caveat -- The design of creative cities -- Design and the civic -- The conversation of design elements -- The unpretentious city -- City of dread: diagnostics -- Restoring the soul to the city -- Diversity and the creative agenda -- What diversity really means -- The chief resource of diversity -- Diversity and migration and global policy -- Creativity is the key to social cohesion -- How creativity educates us to civic risk -- A discourse on civility -- The creative municipality promotes civility -- Reverence and the creative city -- The spiritual in the secular -- Coda -- The language of the senses: an afterword / Charles Landry -- Thanks to