Cultural, Creative and Sustainable Cities: assessing progress and measurement perspectives

The link between culture and sustainable development has become a major research topic in the past few years. The first decade of 2000 was particularly effective at promoting this subject in the academic debate: the number of papers on Google Scholars whose topic relates to ‘Culture and Sustainable Development’ more than doubled in less than a decade, bouncing from 342,000 in 2001-2005 to 1,350,000 in 2006-2010 (Source: Google Scholar, 2022). This Special Issue specifically tackles the challenge to enrich the empirical evidence and reflection around the measurement of culture’s contribution to sustainable development in cities. In particular, it addresses a deficit of attention to small and medium-sized cities in the framework of European sustainable development. It does so by putting at disposal of scholars the European Commission's Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor, a unique open-source dataset featuring 29 culture- and creativity-related indicators for 190 European cities with a minimum of 50,000 inhabitants.

MONTALTO Valentina;  SACCO Pier Luigi;  SAISANA Michaela; 

2022-04-05

MDPI

JRC128826

2071-1050 (online),   

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/7/4246,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128826,   

10.3390/su14074246 (online),