Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington
State-level funding for the arts, humanities, heritage, and allied forms of culture is an important source of financial support, dwarfing the aid provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. This investigation, underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts, shows that states support culture through policies and programs scattered across state government and through means that go beyond direct funding.
Making a List and Checking it Twice: The List as a Tool of Historic Preservation
What is a list for? How do those who use it as a tool of historic preservation conceive of it? Is it merely a designation or is it an award? What are the intended reactions to the fact of listing? What are the actual reactions? What are the issues involved in compiling the list?
Catalunya and its Cultural Industries: Policy Pitfalls and Policy Opportunities
The creation of a new governmental agency, even one that will be afforded some degree of independence from government, raises a wide variety of public policy questions. What policies will that agency pursue? How will they differ from the policies pursued by other agents of government? How will they complement one another? How will the ecology of government action change? But most important is the question: What will be accomplished?
Sub-National Cultural Policy - Where the Action is? Mapping State Cultural Policy in the United States
This paper introduces some new thinking about the role and contribution of cultural programs at the sub-national level, illustrating these ideas by reference to the role of the states in the United States. It is based on a pilot project for the Mapping of State Cultural Policy in the United States.
Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging
Urban ephemera are organized, momentary, repeated urban public presentations. They include parades, festivals, celebrations, outdoor performances, and rituals of all kinds. Because they impress themselves upon the public images of cities in small ways and large, Mark Schuster, a cultural policy analyst, urges city designers and planners to add ephemera planning to their list of tools.