In this paper the authors document regional differences in the approaches taken by 55 major U.S. LAAs to the dual mission of pursuing cultural equity and civic engagement and assess the policy implications of the globalization thesis. In making this assessment, they present a university-community partnership (UCP) model for augmenting LAA pursuits of the dual equity-engagement mission.

Excerpted from Arts & America: Arts, Culture, and the Future of America’s Communities. This essay looks at the role of arts in political activism and immigration over the next 10 to 15 years. The...

The author focuses on how urban policies and the clustering of creative industries has influenced urban outcomes. The set of creative industries include those with output protectable under some form of intellectual property law. More specifically, this sub-sector encompasses software, multimedia, video games, industrial design, fashion, publishing, and research and development

Published by the OECD. Building on recent international case studies, Culture and Local Development shows how public policies can foster culture as a lever for local economic development in terms of partnerships, tax relief, and other innovative instruments. The book also sets out the implications for national governments in the fields of education and intellectual property rights.

Chicago: Arts & Commerce - A Dynamic 21st Century Economy is the fifth in a series of nine articles on the Creative Economy.

In this article I review and evaluate recent work that argues for the rising importance of the cultural sector, and creativity in general, in the context of the new economy.

This report resulted from the 100th American Assembly entitled Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property.

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled <EM>Art, Culture, and the National Agenda</EM> to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. In this paper, the first in the series, the author insists that public policy be repositioned in this time of globalization of the Information Economy and the internationalization of cyberspace.

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a year-long series of issue papers entitled <EM>Art, Culture, and the National Agenda</EM> to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. This paper, the fourth in the series, looks at trade, cultural diplomacy, and foreign policy implications of globalization.

The shift to an era of man-made brain-power industries is creating the technologies that are creating a global economy.