The Art of City Making Now | World’s Best Cities
The Art of City Making Now
CHARLES LANDRY & RICHARD FLORIDA & GABRIELLA GÓMEZ-MONT
WRLDCTY 2021: world

What has the pandemic changed for the creative class, those catalysts of city-building? What characterizes the urban centres that are calling to them now, and how can cities respond to attract them? Join the conversation between two of the world’s leading creative city experts will endeavor to find out.

About The Speakers
CHARLES LANDRY
Urbanist & Author

Charles Landry is an author, speaker and international adviser on the future of cities best known for popularising the Creative City concept. His book The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators became a movement to rethink the planning, development and management of cities.

RICHARD FLORIDA
Urbanist, Professor, and Author

Richard Florida is a researcher, professor and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU’s Schack School of Real Estate. He is an author of several global bestsellers, including the award-winning The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis. He is an entrepreneur, as founder of the Creative Class Group which works closely with companies and governments worldwide.

GABRIELLA GÓMEZ-MONT
Founder and Principal, Experimentalista

Gabriella Gómez-Mont is the founder and director of Experimentalista, a novel type of nomadic and creative office specialized in cities. She was also the former Chief Creative Officer of Mexico City, and the founder of Laboratorio para la Ciudad (2013 – 2018).