Today is a new metropolitan age and for the first time ever more people live in cities than they do anywhere else. As cities strengthen their international and cultural influence, the global world is acted out most articulately in the world's urban hubs - through its diverse cultures, broad networks and innovative styles of governance. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance examines how governance and cultural policy play out in a national and international framework, and covers issues that fully comprehend a city's cultural dynamics and its impact on policy including alternative economies, creativity, migration, diversity, sustainability, education and urban planning. The book is ideal for students, scholars and researchers interested in sociology, urban studies, cultural studies, and public policy. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance is the fifth in a series of major works gathering together leading international scholarship on culture and globalization. In common with previous volumes, Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance features Australian-based contributors including Ramon Lobato, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew, Mark Gibson, Justin O'Connor and Gu Xin.

1. The Cultures and Globalization Series
Helmut K. Anheier& Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Editors
SAGE Publications
London

2. Cultures and Globalization
Why a Cultures and Globalization Series?
Cultures, and their forms of
creation, presentation and preservation are
broadly and deeply affected by
globalization — but in ways that are
inadequately understood
Focus:
The intersections between globalization and
cultural change

3. Cultures & Globalization
The interplay is both unifying and
divisive, liberating and
corrosive, homogenizing and diversifying.
These interactions crystallize both positive
aspirations and negative anxieties.
Cultural globalization is being both
imposed, and resisted...
…embraced and exploited in myriad ways

4. The Series
• Worldwide scope
• Plural: geo-culturally &conceptually
• Academy-based +
journalists, artists, public intellectuals
• Both established & emergingscholars
• Entirely foundation-supported:
RiksbankenJubileumsfond;
Compagniadi San Paolo;
Gulbenkian Foundation; Prince
Claus Fund; J. Paul Getty Trust;
Sasakawa Peace Foundation

5. The Series
Themes
Volume 1 (2007)
Conflicts and Tensions
Volume 2 (2008)
The Cultural Economy
Volume 3 (2010)
Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation
Volume 4 (2011)
Heritage, Memory & Identity
Volume 5 (2012)
Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
(Trans-national, trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary)

6. The Series
Volume Structure
• Overview essays on major issues and
emerging trends
• Analytical chapters and case studies
on regions, topics, fields
• Indicator Suites on cultural
phenomena, trends, events, etc.

7. The Cultural Economy, 2008
Framework
(Guest Editor: Stuart Cunningham)
• Globalization → production, distribution and
consumption of cultural goods and services
• How the relationships between cultural
creators, producers and consumers are being
modified
• The vibrancy of the cultural economy in different
countries and regions
• What the policy challenges are…

8. Cultural expression, creativity and
innovation, 2009
Framework
• How is globalization affecting artistic
practice, creativity and innovation?
•What new forms of creative imagination and
practice and entrepreneurship?
• What patterns of diversity and hybdridity?
• How are agency and dominance exerted?
• Who are the winners and the losers?
• What are the policy implications?
41 contributors from 21 countries

9. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
51 contributors/24 countries on cities as…
• Protagonists of cultural policy and politics
• ‘Mixing bowls’ in which the combined and uneven processes
of globalization play out
• Generators of innovative policy-making
• Loci of key cultural visions, projects, exchanges and networks
(Oz: Stuart C., Terry F., Mark G., Ramon Lobato, Justin O.)

10. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
51 contributors/24 countries on:
•The internal cultural dynamics of cities
• City – city interactions
• City – nation interactions
• Local (city) – global interactions

11. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
Political and sociological issues:
•Cultural diversity and pluralism
•Civil society entities and networks
•Global organizations and cities
•Tools of cultural governance

12. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
Socio-economic issues:
•Political economy of urban cultures
•Economic transformations and renewals
•Branding processes
•Sustainable development

13. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
Urban planning issues:
•Spaces and infrastructures
•Urban regeneration
•Cities and the digital environment

14. Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance
• 9 Overview essays
• 21 ‘city experiences’
• 1 photo essay
• 3 overarching indicator suites
• 9 ‘city suites’ (quantitative indicators)

15. Overview chapters
• Brussels, DC and Montevideo as ‘global cities of
politics’/Sarikakis
• The informal economies of cities/Lobato
• Cities &interculturalism/Wood
• Cities & sustainability/Duxbury, Cullen &Pascual
• ‘Town & gown’/Klaic
• City branding/Kong
• Spectacularizing urban landscapes/Ponzini
• Creative cities: production and/or
consumption/Cunningham
• The ‘creative city’: a revisit/Landry