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Building a creative city has become a mainstream policy for local and regional development. This paper explores the complex relationship between creative city and urban socio-economic structure in the context of urban sustainable development. According to previous empirical studies, cities that have a greater creative function tend to create greater income inequality. Creative cities might not only exacerbate urban cultural ecology, but also create the potential for a new socio-spatial segregation capable of compounding the benefits and liabilities of class by superimposing administrative segmentation on socio-economic segregation. Critically reviewing an expansive body of literature on creative cities in light of urban sustainable development, this paper proposes an alternative set of policy implementations aimed at mediating creativity and structural issues.