World cities culture report

This report examines the cultural offerings of 12 of the world’s greatest cities.  The World Cities Culture Report 2012 is a major global initiative on culture and the future of cities, set up by the Mayor of London. It is a celebration of world cities as crucibles of human creativity and endeavour. From ancient Athens, Renaissance Florence and Elizabethan London to modern New York’s Broadway or Mumbai’s Bollywood, cities have been the places where culture develops and moves forward. This report examines the cultural offer of 12 of the world’s greatest cities. It gathers evidence on 60 cultural indicators, assessing both the supply of and demand for culture, and reports on the thinking of cultural policymakers in those places. The level of detail of the cultural data collected across the cities is unprecedented, and rep The report is the first time that the richness of the data has been brought together with such an in-depth policy analysis. What it shows is that culture is essential to a thriving world city. It is hoped that this report will help to point towards ways of making policy and strategy in this area more effective and robust