Cultural policy on the move: between the paradigmatic and the pragmatic

Tran, Thuy

doi:10.1080/10286632.2023.2241875

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“…However, as with any attempt to represent the social world, the public art referencing network we empirically generated is skewed by various factors, in this case, especially city size and language, so that it captures the mental map of big and newer cities of the anglosphere. It does not represent, for instance, inter-referencing of Italian cities using public art for cultural-historic purposes (Pratt and Hutton, 2013), or the more recent extensive inter-referencing of Asian cities using public art for enhancing their cultural industries (Gu et al, 2020; Kong et al, 2006; Tran, 2023), or even the referencing practice of shrinking cities in the Anglosphere (Zebracki et al, 2019), which often use arts and culture for urban revitalisation. The choice of the referencing cities sample clearly shapes which segment of the overall mental map would be observed, and exploring expanded and alternative samples is an important area for further research.…”

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Mapping policy pathways: Urban referencing networks in public art policies

Keidar,

Silver

2023

Urban Studies

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This article examines the dynamics of inter-referencing between cities and develops the concept of the ‘Urban Referencing Network’ as a representation of the references made by cities to one another in policy documents. The study employs public art policies, specifically the Percent for Art policy, to investigate the structure of inter-referencing within the urban referencing network. Using a corpus of policy documents from 26 Anglophone cities with over one million residents, we analyse 150 documents containing 2178 inter-references. Combining network measurements and regressions, we explore the emergence of central nodes and the mechanisms influencing their formation. The broader field of arts and cultural policies, with its extensive inter-urban connections and professional networks, provides fertile ground for studying urban referencing networks. By integrating literature on policy mobility and urban networks, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the circulation of urban ideas and the interplay between cities in policy-making processes. The results demonstrate that only a few cities, including New York, Chicago, London, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Montreal, emerge as central nodes, attracting the other cities’ attention. Attributes of the referenced cities, like economic importance, iconicity and early adoption, determine to a great extent who are the most central nodes.

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