How to Keep a City’s Economic Growth from Destroying its Cultural Soul?
Submitted by Steve on November 30, 2015
From Cy Musiker, reporting fro KQED:
It may not seem that way if you’re an artist struggling to pay the rent, but San Francisco is one of the world’s leaders in supporting the arts. Last weekend the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Cultural Affairs Director, Tom DeCaigny, joined delegates from 31 cities around the globe for the World Cities Culture Forum in London to discuss how civic leaders can keep economic growth from coming at the expense of a city’s cultural soul.
The forum was founded in London in conjunction with the 2012 Olympic Games, with the idea that as people gather in peace to celebrate sports, they should also acknowledge the way arts and culture do that same thing every day.