World Culture and Cities

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WORLD CITIES REPORT MAYOR OF LONDON A C U LT U R E World Cities Culture Report 2012 B Contents Mayor’s foreword 5 Executive summary 7 Introduction 17 World cities and culture City portraits The world is not flat 21 What is culture? 22 How world cities shape culture 25 Cultural strategies for world cities 28 Challenges and responses 29 What the data tells us Istanbul 61 Johannesburg-Gauteng 65 London 69 Mumbai 73 New York 77 Paris 81 Shanghai 85 Sydney 89 Tokyo 93 Appendix 1: Choice of world cities 96 Appendix 2: Data tables 99 Appendix 3: Shanghai Symposium 141 Appendix 4: List of policy questions 144 Credits 147 Data tables The cities in the report 31 About the data 32 Where next for the research? 35 Cultural heritage 36 Literary culture 41 Film and games 44 Performing arts 47 People and talent 51 Cultural vitality and diversity 53 In summary 57 Figure 1. City definitions 31 Figure 2. Cultural heritage 36 Figure 3. Literary culture 42 Figure 4. Film and games 42 Figure 5. Performing arts 48 Figure 6. People and talent 48 Figure 7. Cultural vitality and diversity 54 Figure 8. Choice of world cities 97 Mayor’s foreword I am thrilled to be launching the World Cities Culture Report 2012 – the most comprehensive report of its kind yet produced. Berlin, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Mumbai, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo have come together in an unprecedented global collaboration to examine the character and importance of culture in world cities. It builds on the hugely successful 2008 report, London: A Cultural Audit, which looked at five of these cities. That report was translated into several languages and helped shape London’s Cultural Strategy. The World Cities Culture Report 2012 is even more ambitious. This time we wanted to extend the number of cities involved, and adopt a much more

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