The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning

Foreword: Why Culture Is Our Super Power

Justine Simons, OBE

Introduction: Urban Cultural Planning Now: Some Thoughts and Executive Summary

Rana Amirtahmasebi and Jason Schupbach

Section 1: Belonging in the City: Arts and Planning for Equity/Social Development

1.1. Cultural Planning, Cultural Policy, and the Civic We

Roberto Bedoya

1.2. Creative Placemaking’s “Long Tail”

Anne Gadwa Nicodemus

1.3. The Importance of Storytelling to the Individual, the Community, and Its Implications for Public Mental Health

David O. Fakunle, Nymisha Herrera Nimmagadda, David Feldman and Arjun Chanmugam

1.4. Place, Cultural Planning, and Immigration in Australia

Deepti Silwal and Carl Grodach

1.5. Civic Imagination: An Artist Offers Ten Proposals

Michael Rohd  

Section 2: Planning for and with Culture in Urban Planning

2.1. Cities for the Imagination (or, Seven Provocations on Potential Futures for Urban+Creative Practices)

Gabriella Gómez-Mont

2.2. Reflections on NYC’s First Cultural Plan: A Conversation between Eddie Torres and Tom Finkelpearl

Eddie Torres and Tom Finkelpearl

2.3. Cultural Districts and Cultural Policy

Adrian Ellis 

2.4. Cultural Asset Mapping in Urban Communities

Julie Goodman and Andrew Zitcer

2.5. Identity and Place Attachment in Cultural Planning

Tom Borrup

2.6. Transforming Communities: Addressing Housing Instability through Art, Advocacy, and Collective Action 

Jules Rochielle Sievert and Miso Kim

2.7. Painting a Strategy, Dancing a Meeting: What Can the Arts Lend to Transit Planning?

Katherine Dirga

Section 3: Creative and Cultural Industries and Global Tourism Planning

3.1. The Creative Economy So Far in the 2000s

Edna Dos Santos-Duisenberg

3.2. A Glance in Brazil: Creative Economy Policies Aimed at Mitigating the Effects of the Pandemic

Christiano Braga

3.3. Night Time Economy: From Cinderella Policy to a Global Movement

Laia Gasch Cascals

3.4. The Making of a Music City: Catalysts, Approaches, Benefits and Challenges of Enactment

Christina Ballico

3.5. From Wellington to Wellywood: Mapping the Emergence of a Global Screen Production Hub

Alfio Leotta

3.6. World Design Capital 2024 San Diego – Tijuana: Preparing a Region for a Global Designation by Owning Your Foibles, Warts and Scars

Jonathon Glus

Section 4: Financing Arts and Culture – For What Goal?

4.1. The Eight Pillars of American Cultural Policy 

Randy Engstrom and Jasmine Mahmoud 

4.2. Artists as Allies in Economic Justice

Laura Zabel

4.3. Solidarity Economy

Angie Kim

4.4. Culture, Community, Equity, Belonging

Caroline Woolard and Natalia Linares

4.5. Cultural Land Trusts as an Emerging Solution to the Arts Space Crisis

Erika Hennebury 

4.6. Reimagining the Cultural District: From Economic Transaction to Collective Cultural Thriving 

Section 5: Cultural Institutions and Buildings, Public Space and Public Art

5.1. The Future is Promised to No One: On Museum Precarity, Adaptability, and Sustainability

nico w. okoro

5.2. Museums: Growth, Crises and Prospects

Gail Lord

5.3. Transformative Urban Regeneration in Victoria Yards

Brian Green

5.4. Case Study: How We Created the World’s First Publicly Accessible Art Storage Facility 

Winy Maas, transcribed and edited by Rory Stott

5.5. Practicing in Public

Jane Golden

Section 6: How the Past Informs Our Future: Heritage Planning 

6.1. The Preservation of Urban Heritage. A New Frontier for the Governance of Cultural Assets. Lessons from Latin American World Heritage Sites

Eduardo Rojas

6.2. Site-Based Pedagogies: Connecting Heritage Education and Critical Heritage Practice 

Jayashree Bardhan

6.3. Heritage as a Way to Interpret and Inhabit the Territory

Catalina Valencia Tobón and Pedro Eliseo Sánchez Baracaldo

6.4. Urban Heritage Conservation and Revitalization on Japan’s Shrinking Society: A Challenge to the Picturesque Historic Port City of Onomichi

Yushi Utaka

Section 7: Culture and the Climate Crisis

7.1. Sustainable Development in Cultural Districts, a Research Report Exploring Practices of Ten Cities around the World 

Helen Kearney

7.2. Integrating Culture and Disaster Risk Management in Urban Planning for more Resilient Societies

Barbara Minguez Garcia

7.3. The Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change: An African-Indigenous Framework

Denise G. Fairchild

7.4. A Feral Commons: Methodologies for Commissioning Sustainable Public Art

Tairone Bastien

7.5. Conservation Regulations and Urban Planning in Climate Change Era 

Poonam Verma Mascarenhas

Section 8: In Closing

8.1. Communities Deserve Creative Outlets: A Conversation between Chair Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Senior Advisor Jen Hughes of the National Endowment for the Arts on Artful Lives and Equitable Community Development

Maria Rosario Jackson and Jen Hughes

Biography

Rana Amirtahmasebi is an economic development and cultural planning strategist and researcher. She is the founder of Eparque Urban Strategies in New York and previously worked at the World Bank, Aga Khan Programme on Islamic Architecture at MIT and several other entities.

Jason Schupbach is the dean of the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University. He is a nationally recognized expert in the role that arts and design play in improving communities.

"This is the first book to map the emerging field of Urban Cultural Planning through an international lens. With a global perspective, urban designers and community leaders from six continents share their on-the-ground experience and insights about how to mobilize the power of culture and the arts to transform urban spaces, enrich community engagement and develop their creative economy. It is an invaluable resource for planners and policymakers as they work to design and sustain more vibrant, creative, equitable and livable cities."

Joan Shigekawa, Former Acting Chair of the US National Endowment for the Arts

"Over the past three decades, culture has emerged as a critical component in strategies for human, social, and economic development. This book contributes to the ongoing conversation about the impact of cultural policies on urban management by showcasing a wide range of case studies from across the globe. It explores how cultural heritage, the arts, cultural institutions, and districts, as well as the creative sector, assist planners in preserving urban identities, landmarks, and places, while creating economically attractive areas that mirror local identities. This book offers planners, citizens, and professionals a wealth of examples of successful cultural integration in urban planning and management, providing an essential toolkit to navigate future challenges."

Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture (2010-2018)

"Amirtahmasebi and Schupbach have deftly collated perspectives that challenge our imagination about making cities solely through the material artifacts of architecture and physical infrastructure. The voices in the book remind us that culture, the implicit rules in any society, is continuously being made and remade, and is in fact dynamic. The book reminds us that through planning for cultural production, we can facilitate addressing a range of issues from economic growth, public health, the arts, and design to questions of equity, participation, justice, a sense of belonging, and, finally, how we collectively mold our future on the planet."

Rahul Mehrotra, Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Harvard University Graduate School of Design