"John Howkins published The Creative Ecologies in 2011. His expression for creative ecologies: ""A creative ecology is a niche where…it is the relationships and actions that count, not the infrastructure. The strength of the creative ecologies can be measured by the flow of energy as well as for the significance of continuous learning and innovation. Diversity, change, learning and adaption are the four indicators connecting with each other."" (Hawkins, 2008) If using a sentence to define and express the creative ecologies that is ""a small living environment which is suitable for the creative living and creative production."" Howkins' concept is easy to be connected with the key words—creative city, designed capital, culture and art capital. All of these ideas and cultural creative industries are made as a city brand marketing issue to develop the unique cultural resources of the city and to give them the cultural identity and resonance which formed as the core value of the market demand. At the same time, general public should develop the individual creativities and encourage people to participate the cultural creation.
The 2011 CClA Report revealed that Taipei city is the fifth places in cultural and creative competitiveness. The phenomenon of Taipei creative cluster is more and more obvious. To view the counties and cities in Taiwan, needless to say, Taipei city is the administrative center of Taiwan. Its international degree is superior to other cities. Therefore, it is easy to achieve greater effectiveness in the promotion of cultural and creative industries. That point out what Howkins said: ""Diversity, change, learning and adaption are the four indicators which influence with each other."" A multi-cultural development of the city which full of vigor and charm is the concept of Howkins' creative ecologies. This paper attempts to take the creative blocks which promoted by Taipei city (like ""Very Fun Park"" street area, ""Yongkang street area"" and ""wen-Roo-Ting street area""——wēn zhōu Road, Roosevelt Road and Tingzhou Road) and creative activities (like Taipei Poetry Festival, Art Exposition, World Design Congress as well as the design Capital in 2016…) as examples which confirm the sequence of ideas, origin of the creative ecologies in the trend of the cultural creative industries development."
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