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A Conceptual Regulatory Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Complex, Participative Cultural Planning Strategies
No full textThe current hype about culture-led local development models is causing an increasing interest in cultural policies in the broader context of urban policy. This is not necessarily a transitory situation bound to fade once the hype is over. Under certain conditions, there is room to believe that culture may indeed become a main development driver of urban systems. For this to happen, however, it is necessary to abandon simple mono-causal developmental schemes (such as the ‘creative class’ model) and look for more articulated approaches. This calls in turn for a complex systems-based conceptual framework that is at the same time rich enough to capture the complexity of the interdependences among policy and state variables, and manageable enough to be of practical use, not only for policy design professionals but also for local stakeholders who want to take part in collective decision-making processes. Inclusiveness and collective decision making are almost unavoidable in the case of cultural planning strategies, as the social sustainability of culture-based value creation processes crucially depends on boosting the level of access to cultural opportunities by local residents. In this article we present an approach that may be a tentative first step in this direction
Le esperienze italiane: lo studio per la distrettualizzazione culturale della regione Veneto
No full textI fondamenti comportamentali e cognitivi dello sviluppo locale "culture-led"
No full textIl contributo affronta per la prima volta il tema dello sviluppo cognitivo per le politiche di sviluppo locale con la presentazione teorica del concetto di costi di attivazion
Proximity effects in obesity rates in the US: a Spatial Markov Chains approach
No full textIn this paper, we investigate, by means of a Spatial Markov Chains approach, the existence of proximity effects at State level for US data on obesity rates in the period 1990-2011. We find that proximity effects do play an important role in the spatial diffusion of obesity (the obesity 'epidemics'), and that the actual health geography of nearby States in terms of high vs. low obesity rates makes an important difference as to the future evolution of the State's own obesity rate over time. This means, in particular, that clusters of States characterized by uniformly high levels of obesity rates, as it happens for instance in the US Southern macro-region, may suffer from a perverse 'geographical lock-in' effect that calls for coordinated action across States to implement effective countervailing policies
System-wide cultural district and the Halland Model: policy design for regional development
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Cultural policies and local planning strategies: what is the role of culture in sustainable development?
No full textBeyond the rhetoric of participation: New challenges and prospects for inclusive urban regeneration
No full textWe carry out a critical analysis of current participation practices in urban regeneration processes. Many concrete examples suffer from major flaws in terms of instrumental or ineffective involvement of parts of the community, and especially of the weakest and most deprived constituencies, at the advantage of more affluent and experienced ones, which are familiar enough with institutionalized public decision making to surf and manipulate the deliberation dynamics at their own advantage. Below a superficial rhetoric of inclusion, cosmetic forms of participation are therefore at risk of perpetuating and even exacerbating existing inequalities. We then explore new possibilities for more effective and sustainable forms of participation, most notably social storytelling, community informatics, and relational public art and culture projects. A new, interesting frontier of future experimentation in participation practices can be found in innovative forms of coalescence among these three streams of activity, as testified by a few state of the art pilot projects and experiences
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