Document Type : Research Paper
Abstract
Our cities today face more problems than before because of nature diversity of the urban events that taken place within them. As we know, the city is the vehicle of culture and mobiles activities that are conducted by the user. Activities in cities vary according to the diversity of urban events that gives a clear impact on city spaces over the time.
It includes creative events, innovations; activities that is carry different time rhythms with successive repetitions.
Hence, the concept of the research was launched based on the concepts of cities creativity and cultural innovation all over the place.
The research problem was formed from the lack of a clear vision of the creative and innovative spaces Baghdad, despite possessing all the human capabilities and skills that do this spatial dimension more sparkle.
The research aims to:
Activating the role of urban spaces that bear the features of creativity and innovation
Upgrading creative events, raising the user's self-awareness and working on handicrafts development.
The research assumes that the central heritage areas of Baghdad city have the features of creativity, innovation which can make the overall picture of cultural creative city .
The research method adopted the comparative analysis using statistical analysis to the quantitative and qualitative data depends on questionnaire form as a research tool in addition to aerial, photographic, and Google Images.
The research results were discussed according to the statistical ratios obtained from questionnaire forms analysis to the residents of Baghdad city center area compared with the international experiences in Germany, Iran, as cities of creativity and innovation.
The research found it is importance of entering the vocabulary of creativity and innovation on our cities today to achieve high rates of global indicators, through which creative concepts can be activated as a new concept that contributes to raising the economic level and impacting the place to make it an active place filled with creative cultural details focusing on the identity of Baghdad city and the self-entitlement of its residents .