Arts, Culture and the Global City

Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:

- A critical understanding of the development of cultural planning approaches globally, with the ability to highlight central assumptions, global trends and practices, and local peculiarities.

- A sound grasp of the major scholarly approaches to, and debates on, urban cultural planning and urban cultural economies, and the ability to contextualise them in relation to specific instances and case studies.

- A critical ability to question the role of the arts in urban regeneration and revitalisation, and the consequences and repercussions.