Creativity in waterfront renewal: A sustainable approach

In contemporary city the competitiveness is increasingly played on creative regeneration to achieve a more comprehensive and sustainable development. To this regard, the paper aims at illustrating the case study of creative urban regeneration of Lyon Confluence. Thanks to the Confluence renewal, that will be explained focusing on history of places, urban projects implemented, sustainable socio-economic regeneration and participation policies, Lyon is part of the Creative City Network promoted by UNESCO and is reaching quite a good ranking among world cities in Quality of living. A first assessment of critical and positive factors of this process, still under development, will conclude the paper.