Cultural districts advocacy guide

• Main Author: HOE, Su Fern
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: cultural districts; cultural value; cultural policy; cultural institutions; cultural communication; arts; Urban Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3448; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4705/viewcontent/GCDN_Cultural_Districts_Advocacy_Guide.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.This advocacy guide 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. It also includes a value demonstration and evaluation framework.