Charles Landry Writer
For the hockey player, see Charles Landry (ice hockey).Charles Landry is best known for having written the book The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators. The creative city has now become a global movement to rethink the planning, development and management of cities. Previously he founded the think tank Comedia in 1978, which pioneered the connection between culture, creativity and city transformation.Charles Landry was born in 1948 and brought up and educated in Britain, Germany and Italy. Prof. Charles Landry is a Master of International Urban Creativity with The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy (DTMA), a high-level, multi-disciplined, application-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China.
