The study talks about creative economies, creative spirit and creative solutions while highlighting the connection between spatial planning terms and policies supporting creative economy. It gives examples of inspirations; suggests urban design element and places emphasis for an evolved development decision making framework infused with smart city management. This study has been awarded with an “A” grade and was presented on the Strategic Spatial Vision Project seminar at School of Built Environment of the Heriot-Watt University.
I have led a team to devise a long term, strategic creative city vision and development strategy for Edinburgh city-region. My role was to outline main milestones of the vision and the policy framework and to mentor Chinese team members through the project as well as to mediate for international postgraduates to understand differences of planning approaches based on cultural backgrounds.
