NATIONAL ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY PUBLICATIONS DATABASE (NAAPPD)
The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture's Essential Role in Public Planning
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Research Abstract
The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture's Essential Role in Public Planning
Cultural vitality is as essential to a healthy and sustainable society as social equity, environmental responsibility and economic viability. In order for public planning to be more effective, its methodology should include an integrated framework of cultural evaluation along similar lines to those being developed for social, environmental and economic impact assessment.
Explores the many different ways that culture affects and relates to patterns of human activities and policy realms.