Charles Landry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Charles Landry

English businessman and author

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1948

Place of Birth: London

Profession: urban planner, opinion journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Charles Landry (born July 1, 1948) 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.
He has chaired multiple urban innovation juries including The European Capital of Innovation Award – iCapital, New Innovations in the Creative Economy (N.I.C.E.) and Actors for Urban Change.
He is a fellow of The Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.He is credited for his attempt to rethink city making through his work on intercultural cities, the psychology of cities, creative bureaucracies and the measurement of creativity in cities – the latter developed with Bilbao and now assessed through in-depth studies of 25 cities.
Previously he founded the think tank Comedia in 1978, which pioneered the connection between culture, creativity and city transformation.