What is it about?

The article shows that Surakarta is not ready yet to be a creative city of design. There are some criterias that have not been accomplished. Creative economy, creative space, and experience in holding event are the lowest supporting aspect. Creative economy is the average in supporting creative city of design. Then the leading is the only one aspect who is ready in supporting implementation of Surakarta as city of design.

Featured Image

Why is it important?

City plays important role making the city owns its high enchantment. This could effect on the emerging of city’s problems, where the city could not accommodate to all the complexity of people interest. Those problems need a new strategy to solve city’s problem which is more suitable to globalization era. The suitable solution is creative city which means city must be attractive by optimizing city’s local potentials. Surakarta, since 2013 has been established by the Ministry Of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia to be a creative city of design by UCCN (UNESCO Creative City Network).

Perspectives

In general, there are several aspects that support the implementation of the creative city design concept in Surakarta, such as creative industries, creative communities, creative environments and events.

Soedwiwahjono Soedwiwahjono
Universitas Sebelas Maret

Read the Original

This page is a summary of: KAJIAN KESIAPAN PENERAPAN KONSEP KOTA KREATIF DESAIN DI SURAKARTA, Arsitektura, November 2017, Universitas Sebelas Maret,
DOI: 10.20961/arst.v13i2.15622.
You can read the full text:

Read

Contributors

The following have contributed to this page