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| Id | 109 | |
| Author | Montalto, V., ; Tacao Moura, C., J.; Langedijk, S., ; Saisana, M., | |
| Title | Culture counts: An empirical approach to measure the cultural and creative vitality of European cities. | |
| Reference | Montalto, V., Tacao Moura, C.J., Langedijk, S. & Saisana, M. (2019). Culture counts: An empirical approach to measure the cultural and creative vitality of European cities. Cities, 89: 167-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.01.014 |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.01.014 |
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| Abstract | How can we measure culture in urban areas? Can empirical metrics on culture function as an urban planning tool for cities' well-being? This paper fits into the research path examining the role of culture as a resource for development, with a specific focus on empirical measurement aspects. A novel dataset (The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor – CCCM) gathering 29 indicators for 168 cities in 30 European countries is presented. The CCCM measures the presence and attractiveness of cultural venues and facilities (Cultural Vibrancy), the capacity of culture to generate jobs and innovation (Creative Economy), and the conditions enabling cultural and creative processes to thrive (Enabling Environment). Results show that cultural and creative assets are diversely distributed across European cities, which offer local authorities the opportunity to design context-specific development strategies. In particular, many medium-sized cities appear to have, on average, more cultural capital assets per inhabitant than larger cities. On the basis of these findings, we draw conclusions on the conceptual and methodological relevance of the CCCM and advance proposals on how to further use the CCCM data to drive culture-led and evidence-based urban policy design." |
"How can we measure culture in urban areas? provided that culture uniquely defines a city which urban contexts are more culturally vibrant. this study tries to challenge these arguments by adopting an evidence-based approach to definition s and measurement attempts: while considering culture a multifaceted urban phenomenon difficult to be mirrored in a pre- scriptive definition attention has been placed on some meaningful aspects that can empirically be measured by making the most of available data which come from both europe-wide official statistics and experimental web-based sources. composite indicators can indeed be very helpful in this context as they aggregate several indicators of performance to assess multidimensional and latent con- cepts such as innovation competitiveness or human development. may be ultimately traced back to three main conceptual areas: as the ensemble of cultural facilities activities and participation has important effects on urban identities and life quality the first area aims to measure some of the most tangible manifestations of cul- ture and participation activities so to capture what scholars have called the cultural vibrancy or cultural vitality here used as sy- nonyms of a place.
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