Perth Creative Commons aims to redevelop Perth’s rail line into a new urban corridor and develop several sites along this route, establishing a diverse and creative community. It is achieved through a vision driven strategy that enables ‘collaborators’ to contribute through a self-build framework. The project aims to attract young professionals and entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines, from traditional arts to tech and engineering. The proposals success relies on establishing a condition which enables and incentivises creatives to contribute to the community and fully realise their aspirations without hindrance.
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Perth Creative Commons consists of two key components. The physical environment and s complex social network. These aspects are knitted together through this online portal. The CC Navigator (Creative Commons Navigator) offers a platform for open source construction including detailed drawings and plans for residential and commercial units developed on site by members of the community.
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The paper begins by defining the creative innovative city from the holistic scale down to the individual. It investigates the benefits of nurturing and enabling a creative community and goes on to examine the conditions needed to allow such a movement to take root and achieve success.
The following document acts in conjunction with Part I: Creative Innovative Cities (Sustainable Cities) helping inform a creative strategy for the City of Perth, Scotland. Part II focuses on several key topics in the form of three separate essays.
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The Statutory Planning Report was developed by myself and three other students. I focused primarily on developing the master plan, researching precedents, producing visuals and analysing policy and economic factors. This report informed many aspects of the proposal for Perth.
