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Cultural Districts: An Investment in Rich Urban Life

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.


Download the publication on the GCDN website here.

Read the report in Spanish here.

A medida que muchas personas ven con expectación el mundo post Covid-19, reconstruir y renovar nuestras ciudades será un desafío colosal. Sin embargo, es también una oportunidad para acometer un cambio transformador y construir la transición hacia un mañana más verde, inclusivo y resiliente.

Author: HOE SU FERN