World Cities Culture Report 2012

[null]

Sorry, the graphic is Chinese only.

Full Report in PDF:

http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/defau...tureReport.pdf

Source: Mayor of London and the London Cultural Strategy Group in partnership with nine of the cities featured in it and produced by BOP Consulting.



Cities from left to right:

Berlin
Istanbul
Johannesburg
London
Mumbai
New York
Paris
São Paulo
Shanghai
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo

Main Indicators from top down:

1. # of Museums
2. # of Art Gallries
3. # of World Heritage sites
4. Public green space ratio
5. # of Public Libraries
6. # of Cinema Screens
7. # of Film Festivals
8. # of Theatres
9. # of Live Music Venues
10. # of Festivals / Celebrations
11. % of Foreign Population
12. # of International Students
13. # of Release Films
14. # of Dance Perfomace
15. # of International Visitors
16. # of Bookshops

[SO143]

this should have been posted in the chinese sub forum instead of here.

[little universe]

Originally Posted by null

Sorry, the graphic is Chinese only.

Full Report in PDF:

http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/defau...tureReport.pdf


Cities from left to right:

Berlin
Istanbul
Johannesburg
London
Mumbai
New York
Paris
São Paulo
Shanghai
Singapore
Sydney
Tokyo

Can't open the pdf for some reason!

No information from Beijing, Hong Kong and Seoul?

Beijing dwarfs Shanghai in almost all cultural respects...

Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul are the three most important Cultural Powerhouses in Asia!

Those post-colonial cities like Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore simply lack the Cultural Confidence and the Self-generating Creativities, although the later two are fluent in English thus are regarded as "more international".

[isaidso]

It's only regarding the 9 participating cities. These aren't necessarily the top 9.

[Reverie]

It’s rather interesting. Of course it would be more interesting with Rome, Madrid, Seoul, Hong Kong, LA, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Toronto…

But at least it furnishes clear criteria and has the intelligence, unlike most of the other city rankings, to avoid a final result for the « most cultural city », based on the accumulation of points with totally incompatible and subjective criteria.

Surprised to see Mumbai with so much movies (the Bollywood effect), to see Berlin with more museums than Paris or New York, to see that in some cities one third of the population are foreigner (however, considering the results I’m not sure it’s covering the same definition for each city), to see more music venues in Paris and Tokyo than in London, THE city of music, but I’m not sure it’s covering the same definition either…

Some critics : the World heritage site criterion is quite shaky, covering different realities. Generally a sole monument, but sometimes an entire zone in the city with numerous monuments or landmarks.
Same remark for the museums : cities have an incredible number of very, very small museums… Counted just like the Louvre or the Met.

[isaidso]

Here's one that includes more cities done by Foreign Policy Magazine in collaboration with A.T. Kearney. "Cultural Experience" is based on museums, visual and performing arts, sports, international travelers, culinary offerings, & sister cities. The last one is a bit odd, imo.

Foreign Policy Magazine Global City Index


http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/c...id=4509&page=1

[little universe]

What kind of gauge they used for calculating the "political engagement"?

Moscow being No.39 while Singapore being No.16 in that regard??!!

I guess even the American Rednecks know which city has bigger political influence over the world's current affairs while ironically those elite editors in D.C. couldn't figure out that point.

[SE9]

Null, here's your chart in English:

[Dimethyltryptamine]

^cheers! I much prefer that it isn't some bogus ranking, just numbers and names.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by little universe

What kind of gauge they used for calculating the "political engagement"?

It's in the link. Btw, not everyone has such a Euro-centric view of the world. Those London based rankings (that always put London 1st) get routinely ridiculed on this side of the pond.

[little universe]

Originally Posted by isaidso

It's in the link. Btw, not everyone has such a Euro-centric view of the world.

Nahhhh...no Euro-centrism at all...I guess i have strong sense of Sinocentrism instead, like most of Chinese Mainlanders.

For the most past 4000 years before the First Opium War, ordinary Chinese called Europeans and others "Yi/夷" (or uncivilised people) and they strongly possessed the idea that China was in the very Central Position of the Civilised World or the Entire World, that could explain why our ancestors called their own country "Zhongguo/中国" or "Central Kingdom".

You might accuse Chinese people at that time being ignorant. But you have to acknowledge that China as an empire and the Chinese Culture dominated the East, South East and part of the Central Asia for centuries, and China was always at the very Top of the Sophisticated thousands-years-old tributary system/朝贡制度, that probably gave ancient Chinese people enough credits being arrogant...and all of which is still vaguely projecting similar kind of narcissism onto modern Chinese people's world view today in the 21th century.

[isaidso]

You're quite right. Every region of the world is guilty of the same thing to varying degrees. I do find that 'political engagement' ranking just bizarre though.

[Skyprince]

Among all 9 cities my top city is definitely Istanbul. The mix of Europe and Middle East/Asia which isn't enjoyed by rest. Istanbul is home to some of the Best architecture ( Ottomans and Byzantines ) ever built in the past. Almost everyone I knew who visited Istanbul said great things about it.

[caserass]

Originally Posted by SO143

this should have been posted in the chinese sub forum instead of here.

lol, why ? because this report shows London is not allmighty ?

After all, you post rankings everywhere in the forum, so I don't know why a such report couldn't be poste in this subforum, since this ranking is related to the urban issues.

[Minato ku]

They confused the foreign population with foreign born population for Paris.
12.5% is the ratio of foreign citizen in IDF, not the ratio of foreign born wich is much higher.

[nicdel]

Originally Posted by Minato ku

They confused the foreign population with foreign born population for Paris.
12.5% is the ratio of foreign citizen in IDF, not the ratio of foreign born wich is much higher.

Same with Berlin. It's mostly because a lot of European countries don't collect specific data regarding foreign-born population, but foreign citizens.

[null]

@SE9, thanks for doing the dirty work for me.