the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities conducted an extensive research project into cultural infrastructure in Canada, including various publications and other resources related to cultural infrastructure.
This report notes that there is growing concern about the state of infrastructure in Canada, including cultural facilities. “Cultural, social, community and recreational facilities are aging and have deteriorated considerably.”
This report, one of eight appendices to Under Construction: The State of Cultural Infrastructure in Canada, mines a number of data sources for information about cultural facilities in Canada.
This report, one of eight appendices to Under Construction: The State of Cultural Infrastructure in Canada, examines a range of existing sources for information about the social and economic returns of investments in cultural facilities.
This report examines spending on government-owned infrastructure, including cultural infrastructure. Although the report only briefly touches on cultural infrastructure, this issue of the Arts Research Monitor examines the study’s detailed tables in more depth
This American report examines various aspects of artists’ centres, including their formation, funding and transformation, their impacts on artists, communities, neighbourhoods and economies, and their organizational challenges. The authors “found rich and compelling evidence that artists’ centers further the quality of artists’ work and enable more of them to make a living at it”.
The Diversity of Cultural Participation, based on the same survey of 1,231 Americans as Motivations Matter, examines in more detail the arts participation decisions of survey respondents.
The Artistic Dividend Revisited updates Markusen’s 2003 study on The Artistic Dividend (see Arts Research Monitor Vol. 2 No 5) by providing information from the 2000 U.S. Census on arts occupation clusters (performing artists, visual artists, writers and musicians) and the location decision-making of artists.
This report examines the management of performing arts facilities in Canada, including a wide range of issues such as ownership, tenancy, operating costs and income, capital costs and funding, working capital, and improvements to physical infrastructure.
