Huddersfield, UK - a success story for cultural industries and urban regeneration

'We welcome the economic role of cities and towns in our globalizing world and the progress made in forging public-private partnerships and strengthening small enterprises and micro-enterprises. Cities and towns hold the potential to maximise the benefits and to offset the negative consequences of globalization. Well-managed cities can provide an economic environment capable of generating employment opportunities, as well as offering a diversity of goods and services.'

United Nations Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millenium (A/RES/S-25/2 of 9 June 2001), para 11.

Promoting development through Cultural Industries

The fact that cities are centres of industrial growth and cultural expression is not surprising but the idea that when brought together and managed efficiently, culture and creative industries can significantly contribute to the economy, employment and cultural diversity of a city is something new.

While this concept of 'creative cities' is one that is rapidly attracting the interest of academics and policy-makers around the world, much remains to be done in both the developed and the developing world to harness the so-far unexploited potential of creativity for the benefit of urban populations.

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