Branding Cultural Districts and Destinations
Branding Cultural Districts and Destinations
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Cities have become the focal point for creation, innovation and exchange. In the new urban age, where all cities compete against each other to attract and retain residents, visitors, investment, talent, events, creative people, organizations, etc., culture, creativity and the arts are increasingly a central point of differentiation and attraction. They help to transform and to shape people’s own identities, both for residents and visitors.
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Culture for health: Implications and opportunities for cultural districts
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Authored by Rosie Dow for GCDN, Culture for health: implications and opportunities for cultural districts, explores how cultural districts can promote health and wellbeing through arts activations; the challenges they face in doing this work, and potential ways forward for new partnerships, policy reform and shifts in ways of working to better serve communities. This report, developed in partnership with the Social Biobehavioural Research Group, University College London (UCL SBB), provides leaders, artists, scholars, and policymakers with the strategies and considerations to promote public health outcomes in cultural districts, including ensuring sustainable and equitable access through arts activations, community-centred events and more.
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Sustainable Development in Cultural Districts
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The City of London Corporation with the support of the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN), has commissioned a research to understand how cultural districts can embed sustainable development practices in their work and by extension, in our cities.
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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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AEA Consulting’s 2017 Cultural Infrastructure Index
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The Cultural Infrastructure Index, undertaken for the Global Cultural Districts Network by AEA Consulting, seeks to measure investment in capital projects in the cultural sector, identifying projects with a budget of US$10 million or more.
This year’s findings reveal an increase in both the number and value of completed projects over 2017, with a significant bump in the Middle East, reflecting the completion of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. North America continues to lead in the number of projects, followed by Europe and Asia.
While many believe the era of the “starchitect” may be ending, cultural infrastructure strategies are now firmly part of the public policy discourse in many countries. The private sector now appears to be driving a further wave of investment, expanding the definition of “culture” further into entertainment and experience.
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