The goal of this thesis is to introduce and to describe creative cities of the future in the world as well as in Croatia. At the beginning of this thesis I describe the appearance of first cities and the difference in the share of urban population between developed countries and countries in development. We will get associated with the term „creative city“, with the concept and phylosophy of the creative potencial that would create the conditions to plan, reuse and resolve seemingly incomprehensible urban problems. Also, creative industries contribute to the development of the whole society by encouraging creativity, knowledge exchange and concept of sustainable development. I shortly described the UNESCO network of creative cities established in 2004., that covers the fields of crafts and traditional art, design, film, gastronomy, literature, media art and music. I briefly studied the smart cities as urban districts that merge information and communication technology and many physical devices connected to the network in purpose to optimize the efficiency of city's services. Croatia has 128 cities out of which 40 of them are developing and using some smart solutions that make them as called smart cities in which the information and services for the citizents are available through new technologies. At the end I wrote about the smart cities in the world like world capitals that are among the smartest cities due to their solutions that ease the everyday life of its citizents with new technologies. Modern cities are changing and adapting to the needs of their citizents by using the advanced technologies whose goal is to ease and improve the way of life.