100 U.S. municipalities are documented in this observational dataset of publicly accessible cultural infrastructure. Chewi Lockhart constructed the Municipal Cultural Infrastructure Recognition Dataset through systematic review of municipal documents using a standardized seven-domain governance framework. The dataset inventories individual cultural venues and records their recognition status, governance domains, and supporting evidence, enabling replication and secondary analysis.
Use Cases
- Analyze municipal cultural policy based on governance capacity variables like arts departments and cultural plans
- Study urban governance systems based on the seven-domain framework encompassing arts, economic development, and land use
- Compare municipal recognition of cultural infrastructure based on venue characteristics and municipal-level variables
- Research cultural planning based on documented evidence supporting coding decisions for each venue
Strengths
- Includes documented evidence supporting coding decisions for all observations
- Inventories cultural venues across 100 U.S. municipalities
- Constructed through systematic review of publicly available municipal documents
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Systematic review of publicly available municipal documents using a standardized seven-domain governance framework
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 11:41:45; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- 100 U.S. municipalities