Planning for the cultural economy: lessons from Ontario, Canada

Tara Vinodrai, Brenton Nader and Nicole Drake

Planning Practice & Research, 2023, vol. 38, issue 2, 159-176

Abstract: This paper examines how policymakers interpret and deploy cultural economy approaches within municipal economic development strategies and cultural plans. Focusing on the 33 largest municipalities in Ontario, Canada, we conduct a keyword analysis of 63 municipal planning documents, supplemented with key informant interviews with economic development and cultural planning staff. Our analysis reveals that the use of cultural economy approaches in economic development and cultural plans varies depending upon city size, municipal governance structure and municipal organizational structure. However, despite the widespread use of cultural economy ideas in planning documents, we conclude that its uptake in municipal policymaking fails to reflect its professional and scholarly popularity.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2157573

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