AEA Consulting’s 2020 Cultural Infrastructure Index
AEA Consulting’s 2020 Cultural Infrastructure Index
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AEA Consulting is pleased to present the 2020 Cultural Infrastructure Index. Now in its fifth edition, the Index seeks to measure investment in capital projects in the global cultural sector, identifying projects with a budget of US$10 million or more that were publicly announced or completed within the last calendar year.
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Cultural Districts: An Investment in Rich Urban Life
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Cultural districts strengthen our cities and communities and support the development of thriving places and people. Support for cultural districts is a high-return investment as their value is immense, multi-layered and far-reaching. However, while those benefits are embraced by many, not all believe it. Increasingly, cultural leaders are being challenged to demonstrate how supporting the arts and culture advances other agendas; from attracting investment to fostering liveable communities and enabling public safety.
GCDN developed this advocacy guide to help! It makes a case for support of cultural districts as a necessity for building thriving places and people. Importantly, it provides a core set of ideas and baseline language that cultural leaders can use to communicate with stakeholders such as policy-makers, sponsors and patrons.
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Cultural Districts and Innovation: a Focus on the Global South
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This report, commissioned by the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) and written by Tarek Virani, looks at “how cultural districts in the Global South are either innovating or creating the conditions to meet the needs of new and existing challenges”. As such, it provides a fresh perspective on what the challenges of our time might mean for cultural districts worldwide balancing the push and pull of globalisation and localism. Ultimately, our understanding of how innovation in cultural districts occurs in the Global South reinforces what we know about cultural districts generally – as much as this is a global phenomenon, the local context always determines the shape and impact of any effort.
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AEA Consulting’s 2022 Cultural Infrastructure Index
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GCDN is pleased to present AEA Consulting's 2022 Cultural Infrastructure Index. Established in 2016, the Index seeks to measure investment in capital projects in the cultural sector globally, identifying projects with a budget of US$10 million or more that were publicly announced or completed within a calendar year.
“Cultural infrastructure” comprises museums/galleries, performing arts centers, multifunction arts venues, and cultural hubs or districts, and projects tracked include new buildings, renovations, expansions, and adaptive reuse.
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Governance Models of Cultural Districts
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This report, commissioned by the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN), draws on primary research and a literature review to capture good practices, and identifies which stakeholders should be “at the table” for informed and effective decision making and oversight. The research has also revealed the range of business models that underpin these governing entities, reviewing how cultural districts are generating revenue and expending it. The research is intended to be fully international in scope, with useful lessons for GCDN members and other practitioners around the world.
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