Culture and the City (talk to 'My City's Still Breathing' November 7 2010, Winnipeg

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Presented to Winnipeg's "My City's Still Breathing" conference on November 7 2010 NOTE I've used Slideshare's Webinar facility to synchronise the slides with the audio, but unfortunately, when you view the presentation, you just see the slides divided equally in time. Watch this space, and any suggestions about how to fix this are of course welcome

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CULTURE AND THE CITY

Alan FreemanGLA Economics

Acknowledgements This was presented to the Cultural Capital

conference entitled ‘My City’s still breathing’ in Winnipeg on November 7 2010

Thanks to Mary Reid, Pat Bovey, Dominic Lloyd, Kerri-Lynne Reeves, and all the great folks in the Winnipeg Art scene who set up the conference and got me there.

A more up to date version was presented in Chicago, June 2011; though that would never have happened were it not for the Winnipeg conference and its organisrs, this presentation is provided for the record because the later one is more developed.

Winnipeggers may notice some extra detail that might escape your average Chicagoan…

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What’s in a number?

, if anything, c

The Cultural Audit – what it’s not

What’s in a number?

206,000

172,000

But…Most of the authors are

not British

Most of the readers are not British

So what’s going on?

UK

US

Canada

AustraliaSouth Asia

Africa

English language writers

UKUS

Canada

AustraliaSouth Asia

Africa

English Language readers

The city is a centre of encounter and exchange

It connects the parts of the region to each other

It connects the region to other regions

How?

Copyright James O. Jenkins M:07876341910 email james@jimages.demon.co.uk

What cities do

The populations of the region mingle in each

cityBusiness,

government, and ideas come from

other cities to exchange

Culture as resource

The successful modern city provides the facilities for interchange.

It cannot do this as an empty shell; it has to be culturally alive

Because culture is the vehicle of exchange.

What does it mean?

It was foreseeable

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Projected from this date

UK spending on music (Performing Rights Society)

And it is consistent with other data

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