Cultural policies have been a typical expression of national states since the beginning of the XIX century. For this reason, they are mainly focused on conservation and enhancement of historical and artistic heritage and they are lead by State bodies, directly or through public-private partnerships. At the end of the Nineties, the growth of urban regeneration policies has foster the coordinated implementation of strategic initiatives related to cultural heritage within the framework of local development policies. This strategies, firstly defined as planning for the arts, are now collected under the “label” of cultural planning as they are involving a wider range of cultural resources (natural assets, industrial heritage sites, forms of intangible heritage, etc.). Recently, the economic theories on technological innovation have lead the attention on creative absorptive capacity of culture, supporting a cultural development of the economy. This procedural and creative dimension of culture, however, is so broad that induce to question what is or is not art for the purpose of programming and when public policies end living space to cultural planning. In Europe this emerges evaluating the effects of EU cultural planning on urban and regional development in its member countries because European projects sometimes are managed directly by the Directorates of the European Commission (centralized management), other through national and regional Operative Programs linked to national cultural policies (de-centralized management of the Cohesion Policy). The study tries to shed light on this aspect, firstly describing facilities and resources devoted to culture within the European Union and, then, analyzing the 2007-2014 programming and the preliminary documents of the 2014-2020 cycle. In the final part, the useful elements emerged are discussed providing some considerations on the role of central governments and regions in the implementation of cultural planning initiatives financed with Structural Funds.
Cultural planning: the impact of the European Funds System on regional and urban development,
USAI, ALESSIA
2014-01-01
Abstract
Cultural policies have been a typical expression of national states since the beginning of the XIX century. For this reason, they are mainly focused on conservation and enhancement of historical and artistic heritage and they are lead by State bodies, directly or through public-private partnerships. At the end of the Nineties, the growth of urban regeneration policies has foster the coordinated implementation of strategic initiatives related to cultural heritage within the framework of local development policies. This strategies, firstly defined as planning for the arts, are now collected under the “label” of cultural planning as they are involving a wider range of cultural resources (natural assets, industrial heritage sites, forms of intangible heritage, etc.). Recently, the economic theories on technological innovation have lead the attention on creative absorptive capacity of culture, supporting a cultural development of the economy. This procedural and creative dimension of culture, however, is so broad that induce to question what is or is not art for the purpose of programming and when public policies end living space to cultural planning. In Europe this emerges evaluating the effects of EU cultural planning on urban and regional development in its member countries because European projects sometimes are managed directly by the Directorates of the European Commission (centralized management), other through national and regional Operative Programs linked to national cultural policies (de-centralized management of the Cohesion Policy). The study tries to shed light on this aspect, firstly describing facilities and resources devoted to culture within the European Union and, then, analyzing the 2007-2014 programming and the preliminary documents of the 2014-2020 cycle. In the final part, the useful elements emerged are discussed providing some considerations on the role of central governments and regions in the implementation of cultural planning initiatives financed with Structural Funds.
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