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Dr. Valentina Montalto
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via E. Fermi, 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy

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Published: 03 December 2020 in European Urban and Regional Studies
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Cultural and creative sectors (CCS) are increasingly recognized as a driving economic force. In addition to their undisputed soft power, creative jobs are expected to prove more resilient to automation, and may therefore play an important role in the future growth cycles of advanced global economies. But how is Brexit going to affect the UK’s flourishing creative economy at an urban level? Pre-Brexit evidence from the European Commission’s Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor (CCCM) clearly shows that UK cultural and creative cities excel in Europe in their capacity to attract and integrate foreign creative professionals. Creative non-nationals represent a diverse, crucial human capital pool for CCS, as 22% of CCS employers hire at least one non-UK worker. The effect of Brexit on the cultural and creative potential of UK cities can be devastating for CCS competitiveness if not properly addressed. As CCSs are widely regarded as leading sectors of the UK economy and major drivers of innovation and growth in the UK’s long-term developmental vision, suitable policy measures should be taken to prevent this possibility.

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Valentina Montalto; Francesco Panella; Pier Luigi Sacco. What does Brexit mean for UK cultural and creative cities? European Urban and Regional Studies 2020, 28, 47 -57.

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Valentina Montalto, Francesco Panella, Pier Luigi Sacco. What does Brexit mean for UK cultural and creative cities? European Urban and Regional Studies. 2020; 28 (1):47-57.

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Valentina Montalto; Francesco Panella; Pier Luigi Sacco. 2020. "What does Brexit mean for UK cultural and creative cities?" European Urban and Regional Studies 28, no. 1: 47-57.

Journal article
Published: 06 June 2020 in European Journal of Operational Research
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Culture is an integral part of a city's quality of life, a driver of urban change, and a genuine economic sector. To support benchmarking of urban culture and facilitate peer learning among policymakers, the European Commission has recently created the ‘Cultural and Creative Cities Index’. While this index builds on a standardised method to aggregate 29 indicators for the 155 selected cities, it is explicitly acknowledged that a ‘gold standard’ for a ‘Cultural and Creative City’ does not exist. Instead, different approaches should be allowed for in capturing cities’ cultural and creative vitality. This is the point of departure for this paper, which employs a Benefit-of-the-Doubt (BoD) modelling approach to allow cities to combine such respect for performance diversity with peer learning and benchmarking. Expert-based weights are used to provide expert-consistent bounds for the shares of key dimensions in a city's final BoD index value. We identify three city clusters, among which there are large performance differences. Accordingly, we focus on the within-group identification of peer cities and target values, which we illustrate in more detail for Bilbao, Krakόw and Umeå, towards the formulation of fit-for-purpose policy measures that can support culture-led development.

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Tom Van Puyenbroeck; Valentina Montalto; Michaela Saisana. Benchmarking culture in Europe: A data envelopment analysis approach to identify city-specific strengths. European Journal of Operational Research 2020, 288, 584 -597.

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Tom Van Puyenbroeck, Valentina Montalto, Michaela Saisana. Benchmarking culture in Europe: A data envelopment analysis approach to identify city-specific strengths. European Journal of Operational Research. 2020; 288 (2):584-597.

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Tom Van Puyenbroeck; Valentina Montalto; Michaela Saisana. 2020. "Benchmarking culture in Europe: A data envelopment analysis approach to identify city-specific strengths." European Journal of Operational Research 288, no. 2: 584-597.

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Published: 31 January 2020 in Social Indicators Research
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In the last decades, policy discussions have increasingly considered participation in arts and cultural activities as a vehicle to reach broader social policy goals, such as social inclusion or active citizenship. However, convincing empirical evidence on the social impacts of arts and culture is still scarce. In particular, little attention has been given to the impact that cultural participation may have on individuals’ engagement in civil society, especially in Europe. In order to address this lack of evidence, this paper explores the connection between cultural participation and civic participation in Italy using Likert-scale data collected in the ISTAT “Aspetti della Vita Quotidiana” Survey (2014). To do so, two composite indicators—the participation in cultural life indicator and the participation in civic life indicator—have been built using an approach based on partial order theory and the concept of Average Rank. The effect of cultural participation on civic engagement has been estimated using a quantile regression model which controls for potentially cofounding factors such as education, income, age and gender. Results do confirm that participation in arts and cultural activities is highly correlated with participation in civic life. It is particularly worth noticing that at higher levels of civic participation, cultural participation has a positive and strong effect on civic engagement of people having a low educational level.

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Desirée Campagna; Giulio Caperna; Valentina Montalto. Does Culture Make a Better Citizen? Exploring the Relationship Between Cultural and Civic Participation in Italy. Social Indicators Research 2020, 149, 657 -686.

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Desirée Campagna, Giulio Caperna, Valentina Montalto. Does Culture Make a Better Citizen? Exploring the Relationship Between Cultural and Civic Participation in Italy. Social Indicators Research. 2020; 149 (2):657-686.

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Desirée Campagna; Giulio Caperna; Valentina Montalto. 2020. "Does Culture Make a Better Citizen? Exploring the Relationship Between Cultural and Civic Participation in Italy." Social Indicators Research 149, no. 2: 657-686.

Journal article
Published: 19 February 2019 in Cities
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How can we measure culture in urban areas? Can empirical metrics on culture function as an urban planning tool for cities' well-being? This paper fits into the research path examining the role of culture as a resource for development, with a specific focus on empirical measurement aspects. A novel dataset (The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor – CCCM) gathering 29 indicators for 168 cities in 30 European countries is presented. The CCCM measures the presence and attractiveness of cultural venues and facilities (Cultural Vibrancy), the capacity of culture to generate jobs and innovation (Creative Economy), and the conditions enabling cultural and creative processes to thrive (Enabling Environment). Results show that cultural and creative assets are diversely distributed across European cities, which offer local authorities the opportunity to design context-specific development strategies. In particular, many medium-sized cities appear to have, on average, more cultural capital assets per inhabitant than larger cities. On the basis of these findings, we draw conclusions on the conceptual and methodological relevance of the CCCM and advance proposals on how to further use the CCCM data to drive culture-led and evidence-based urban policy design.

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Valentina Montalto; Carlos Jorge Tacao Moura; Sven Langedijk; Michaela Saisana. Culture counts: An empirical approach to measure the cultural and creative vitality of European cities. Cities 2019, 89, 167 -185.

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Valentina Montalto, Carlos Jorge Tacao Moura, Sven Langedijk, Michaela Saisana. Culture counts: An empirical approach to measure the cultural and creative vitality of European cities. Cities. 2019; 89 ():167-185.

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Valentina Montalto; Carlos Jorge Tacao Moura; Sven Langedijk; Michaela Saisana. 2019. "Culture counts: An empirical approach to measure the cultural and creative vitality of European cities." Cities 89, no. : 167-185.