New Insight into the Creative Urban Clusters (The potentials of joint space between Naqhsh- e Jahan Square and the Art University of Isfahan as an attractive place for the creative class)

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The creative city is a place for the development of creativity in dynamic of community’s creative clusters; which these clusters maintain and nurture creative class of experts with the wide range of skills. Universities can provide a setting for interaction of creative talent with intellectual power within a community, such spaces should be regarded as a valuable asset for a city that can be used as a creative cluster to achieve a creative city’s goals. The purpose of this paper was to analyse the joint space between the Art University of Isfahan and Naqhsh- e Jahan Square as a cluster for creativity. Analysis focused on potential of open spaces for nurturing a creative class and promoting a culture of creativity. In this regard, this paper seeks to answer these questions: "What criteria do Naqhsh- e Jahan Square and the Art University of Isfahan as urban spaces have in order to adapt to urban creative clusters? What potential does the joint space between the Art University of Isfahan and Naqhsh- e Jahan Square have in order to convert to creative cluster? And how and how much this space has been successful in attracting and promoting the creative class?". In this regard, these questions of paper were addressed through a qualitative, theoretical study, using analysis of the related literature, and the term creative class is defined followed by investigation of the role of urban creative clusters to attract the creative class in a society. Then by analysing the Naqhsh- e Jahan Square and the Art University of Isfahan as two creative clusters; by qualitative approach and by analysing the interactive relationship between these clusters extracted the absorbent place criteria of creative class in the joint space between the Art University of Isfahan and Naqhsh- e Jahan Square. In the end, with quantitative analysis the permeability of Naqhsh- e Jahan Square and the Art University of Isfahan by the joint space between them as a place with potential of absorbing creative class has been done. The final outcome of this article is to achieve the absorbent place criteria of creative class in the joint space between Naqhsh- e Jahan Square and the Art University of Isfahan and in this context, the proposed solutions such as promoting social interaction, increasing security and improving user manipulation in order to generalizing the open space of university with the aim of transforming the joint space into the commissure of university and city, will be presented.

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