Vartojantis Ar Kūrybingas Miestas?
Consuming or Creative City?

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary cities suffer not only from excessive urban growth, expansion of transportation systems, distortions of human scale, but also from the expansion of uncontrollable consumption that is represented by growing number and dimensions of supermarkets and shopping alleys. Municipal policies and development strategies seem to serve the interests of market forces that urge inhabitants to indulge the pleasures of the culture of consumption. The further growth of consuming cities, however, offer no alternatives to consumer culture; they threaten urban ecology and the future prospects of the city. A concept of creative city, shaped by Charles Landry offers another direction for the expansion of city culture, but is it a true alternative? Does the variety and abundance of cultural functions guarantee a truly positive transformations of our present day cities? These are the urgent issues that are discussed in the article.

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