Cultural Vitality Indicators for U.S. Metropolitan Areas

María Rosario Jackson's report introduces a definition of cultural vitality as evidence of creating, disseminating, validating, and supporting arts and culture in everyday life. It develops an initial set of arts and culture indicators derived from nationally available data and compares selected metropolitan areas based on these measures. Policy and planning implications for using the cultural vitality definition and related measures are discussed.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking metropolitan areas based on cultural activity indicators mentioned in the description
• Informing arts and culture policy based on the developed definition of cultural vitality
• Planning community development initiatives using the recommended set of nationally available data indicators

Strengths

• Provides a formal, research-based definition of cultural vitality for consistent measurement
• Indicators are derived from nationally available data, suggesting a degree of standardization
• Includes comparative analysis of selected metropolitan areas

Limitations

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• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

María Rosario Jackson

Collection Method

Report analyzing and recommending indicators derived from nationally available data.

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Geography

Likely focuses on the United States, with comparisons of selected metropolitan areas.