This book provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities featuring chapters and case studies from Africa the Americas Australasia the Middle East South and East Asia and more. The handbook is organized around seven themes: arts and planning for equity and social development; incorporating culture in urban planning; the intersection of creative and cultural industries and tourism planning; financing; public buildings public space and public art; cultural heritage planning; and culture and the climate crisis. Urban planners are often tasked with preserving and attracting new art and culture to a city but there are no common rules on how practitioners accomplish this work. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for city planners and designers cultural workers elected officials artists and social justice workers and advocates seeking to integrate creativity and culture into urban planning. |The Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning | Landscape & Planning
