The mobile global discourse on culture's prominent role in driving development policies is
increasingly influencing small cities and rural communities. Global networks of information …

Questions regarding the relevance of culture-based development strategies are even more
relevant to ask when such strategies are applied to rural places and small towns. In urban …

Positioning Cultural Mapping in Local Planning and Development Contexts: An Introduction
Page 1 Nancy Duxbury is a Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures …

This paper addresses the question of how cosmopolitan consciousness coexists with
persistent banal nationalism or localism. The argument put forward is that these two …

From the growth of city regions to the calls for more localism, engaging with “the local” has
become an increasingly important part of cultural policy rhetoric in many countries (UCLG …

Regions have been regarded as processes, artefacts and discourses, and recently as
'brands' that various stakeholders use in marketing. Discourses on institutional regions are …

This paper focuses on the global presence in the local processes of place-making in a rural
area in Sweden. As a result of increased competition–fueled by a reorganization of global …

In this paper we carry out a meta-analytic review of the literature on culture-led local
development models. We identify and discuss three typical fallacies characterising mono …

Within a paradigm of culture‐led urban competition, discourse and debate has focused on
attracting the mobile creative class, diverting attention on cultural resources for lesser …

Cultural policy in Europe is deeply rooted in the Welfare State doctrine that has been
prevailing during the last half century. Its implementation has gone along with the invention …