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Our newsletter features our favourite new articles on culture and the creative economy, as selected by the BOP team.
Connecting urban planning to culture and citizens
London’s new Cultural Infrastructure Plan has been published, including our mapping of London’s theatre sector. The plan’s details and rigour represents a shift in how cities plan for culture.
1. Global update: cultural policy
Do cultural plans lack teeth? (CityLab)
Culture brings a new civic spirit to world cities [Report] (WCCF)
A lurch between aggression and apathy: Arts and Culture under the Coalition (The Conversation)
2. Embracing our cultural heritage
The moral maze of museum management (The Economist)
Protect urban heritage to prevent inequality [Report] (BOP)
What makes museums great in the Netflix era? (Art Agency)
3. Industry insights: USA
Global art can kick-start local economies (The Art Newspaper)
The growing importance of the arts to rural America (Governing)
The arts contribute more to the US economy than agriculture (artnet)
4. Other recent highlights
The boom in pop-up galleries is only just getting started (Artsy)
Brexit more significant than skilled labour for the screen sector (Screen Skills)
As festivals boom in the Gulf, can skills shortages be addressed? [Report] (BOP)
Soft Power and subtlety take centre stage for this year’s Chinese Pavilion (artnet)
5. Best of The Blog
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How are major cities around the world responding to climate change through cultural policies and programmes?
The Green World Cities of Tomorrow: Culture and Sustainability
Paul Owens
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Apr 22, 2021
5 Priorities for World Cities in the post-covid recovery period
Culture and the Climate Emergency
Paul Owens
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Dec 4, 2020
Culture can play an important role in recovery and renewal across the UK, if the right local decision-making is put in place
Culture and the Recovery: Levelling Up Culture?
Callum Lee
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Sep 23, 2020
This focused, coordinated set of measures can not only rescue the sector, but position it to lead the recovery
Central London’s celebrated cultural offer is in peril
Jonathan Todd
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Aug 21, 2020
Three big questions as applications close for Arts Council England’s Cultural Recovery Fund
COVID-19: Government support packages for culture and creative industries #3
Paul Owens
Jul 30, 2020
The UK’s £1.57 billion recovery package: priorities for a New Deal
COVID-19: Government support packages for culture and creative industries #2
Paul Owens
Jul 20, 2020
Cities are using their unique capabilities to lead recovery and renewal
COVID-19: Cities, Culture and the 3 ‘P’s: powers, partnerships, place
Paul Owens
Jul 7, 2020
Investing in recovery, planning for transformation
COVID-19: Government support packages for culture and creative industries #1
Paul Owens
Jun 30, 2020
Recovery and renewal will depend on how we address the three dimensions of the crisis
COVID-19 is a triple blow to culture and the creative industries
Paul Owens
Jun 3, 2020
In the face of radical uncertainty leaders and policy-makers will have to take planning and collaboration to whole a new level
‘Plans are useless, planning is essential’
Paul Owens
May 13, 2020
Nobody knows what will happen next, but we have a good idea of the three necessary steps out of the crisis
Relief, Recovery and Renewal: navigating our way to a new kind of future
Paul Owens
Dec 20, 2019
A cause for optimism
Weaving the Golden Thread into the 2020s
Paul Owens
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Paul Owens
Co-Founder and Director
Paul is a leading international advisor and practitioner in cultural policy and creative economy. He is Co-Founder of BOP, and alongside his fellow directors he has pioneered now well-established methods to measure the impact of cultural policy.
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