Charles Landry studied in Britain, Germany and Italy and is tri-lingual. He founded Comedia, Europe’s leading cultural planning consultancy, in 1978. His publications include The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators (2000, Earthscan/Kogan Page).

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Roger Scruton and Sophie Jeffreys are right that a planning process which fits people’s needs must be aesthetic rather than only economic or technical. But people seek novelty as well as coherence in their urban experience. The static certainties of classicism cannot contain modern longings. We must make cities feel, and be, ‘creative’.