Research On Evaluation Of Creative City

In order to cope with the urban problems and with the rise of creative industries, the practice and theory of creative city emerges. Creative city is one of big issues in urban development and construction in 21st century. This thesis focuses on the quantitative evaluation of creative city.This paper is composed of four chapters. Chapter One includes research background, the meaning of the research, research plan and literature review. Chapter two is an important part in this paper. In this chapter, based on analyzing the features of creative city and referring relevant evaluation model, the evaluation model of creative city is set up preliminary. The index weight is determined by AHP. Chapter three is an important part too. This chapter takes Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing as evaluation objects. The degree of creative city from high to low is: Beijing, The fourth chapter is conclusions and policy suggestions. For the construction of creative city, The research gives four suggestions: (1) To promote the development of creative industry positively; (2) To enhance the construction of creative environment such as urban openness, urban cultural environment and urban amenity;(3) To stimulate the pubic creativity by transforming the traditional city management into urban governance.In a word, The concept of creative city plays an important role of guidance in China's urbanization and urban sustainable development. The construction of creative city which is a systematic project requires long-term propulsion.