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London
A cultural audit
Acknowledgements
This report was commissioned by the London Development Agency (LDA), with input from GLA Economics and The Mayors Office. The data collation and analysis was undertaken by a research team of BOP Consulting and Experian. The introductory sections of this report were written by Alan Freeman, GLA Economics. The cultural audit itself (sections 5 onwards) was written by Richard Naylor (BOP Consulting), Kate Oakley, and Dr Andy Pratt (London School of Economics). The LDA and GLA would also like to thank the Academic Advisory Group for their valuable input and comments on an earlier draft of this report: Professor Graeme Evans, London Metropolitan University Dr Pan Jin, Shanghai Creative Indutry Center Professor Simon Roodhouse, London College of Communications
Alan Freeman GLA Economics
Section 1 I ntroduction
Contents
Mayors Foreword Introduction by Judith Woodward Section 1 Introduction Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices Section 3 Determinants of cultural demand Section 4 Approach and method of the audit Section 5 Supply: Cultural infrastructure and output Section 6 Demand: Consumption Appendix A Technical Appendix Appendix B Data tables with dates and sources
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Appendix C Data references, providers and resources 100
Section 1 Introduction
Trafalgar Square Festival James OJenkins.
Mayors Foreword In recent years London has risen to become what is almost certainly the worlds top business centre. London is justifiably proud of this achievement, and of the people, enterprises, investors and institutions which have helped to shape and govern Londons economy.
cultural investments are expanding and renewing Londons priceless cultural assets. Showcasing and promoting these achievements through events such as London Fashion Week, Frieze Art Fair, London Film Festival and Design Week are a vital objective of my cultural strategy. A wide and expanding range of carnivals celebrate Londons world cultures, combining with its cultural attractions to bring twice as many visitors to London as New York and 50% more than Paris. Inward investment from across the globe is regenerating neighbourhoods, generating employment, and enriching the lives of Londons residents, workers and visitors. Policy requires evidence. This audit of Londons cultural assets, conducted for the first time in such a way as to make meaningful comparisons with other world cities, has gathered data of great use and vital importance both to business decision-makers and to policy makers. I invite all those who share our interest in sound evidence to join us in building on this initiative, which will maximise the benefits of Londons world connections and status as a world centre for creativity and commerce.
Liane Harris.
But a purely commercial focus risks losing sight of what has made London successful. The dramatic growth of its finance and business services industries in the last thirty years draws on wider resources. London is now, and has always been, the crossroads of world trade and world culture. Its financial success is built on this foundation. Londons greatest strength is its people. These people, who come from the world over, have a choice; London is proud they have chosen to live here, and is the better for it. Londons cultural institutions are essential to their choice, and we all have a responsibility to ensure they continue to choose our city. London is witnessing an expansion of cultural and artistic life not seen for decades. From the Tate Modern and its world-renowned South Bank, through to investments in art education down to its cutting-edge designer-maker studios,
Ken Livingstone Mayor of London
Introduction by Judith Woodward This report is the first quantitative overview of Londons cultural environment, which it compares with that of four world cities New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai. Its aim is to provide evidence for the Mayor of Londons strategy for culture, but it will be of wider use, offering an evidence base for improvement and innovation by decision and policy-makers inboth the private and public sectors.
What it shows is that, for success, major world cities need the full range of culture from world class classical arts to popular music, musical theatre to libraries, contemporary visual art to salsa dancing. The evidence reveals a remarkable similarity between these cities in the quantity and breadth of the culture on offer. If Shanghai lags behind, it is for understandable reasons. Indeed part of the impulse for this research was the conclusion analysts in Shanghai itself are drawing from these comparisons that building its global competitive position means not only advancing its business and finance sector, but its cultural sector also has to catch up. A globalised workforce demands access to the worlds culture. So if international business is to make its longterm home in a city, it doesnt just require the economic opportunity, it needs a rich environment in other respects, not least cultural life. We have to conclude that a strong contribution to Londons success is because it is home to a world of culture as distinctive and glamorous as the cafs of Paris or the skyscrapers of New York. Its art scene, skyline, festivals, music and theatres, museums, cinemas and galleries, filmmakers, scriptwriters, actors and broadcasters, and its vibrant artistic and literary community are unique, yet emphatically part of a world culture. Home to speakers of 300 languages, the city is linked by ties of trade and travel to their communities of origin. Seat of a world language of literature which is now the unchallenged world language of science and business, its culture distils and transforms ideas and influences that span the globe. This makes Londons culture an asset beyond imitation. Its importance stretches beyond the enjoyment it provides, work it offers, or money it earns. With the citys people and its institutions, it makes London what it is. This report aims to simply to provide a measurable record of the main activities that comprise it. But the story it reveals should give food for thought to policy-makers in many fields. Judith Woodward Mayor of Londons advisor for culture, creative industries and tourism
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Section
Introduction
1.1 Benchmarking city cultures 1.2 The cultural environment and itseconomicimpact
This report, commissioned by the London Development Agency (LDA), together with GLA Economics, complements and extends the Greater London Authoritys (GLA) regular series of reports on the creative industries (GLA 2002, 2004, 2007), as part of a long-term goal to give London a comprehensive and robust evidence base for policy-makers business decision makers, researchers and the interested public.
It has been called an audit because it is an attempt, the first as far as we are aware, to take stock: to pull together in one place, from the bewildering variety of sources that provide such information, all the available data on cultural infrastructure and consumption. It systematically attempts to make this data robust: to verify it, ensure as far as possible that it is not partial or selective, and quantify it in such a way that it allows London to be compared with other cities. To assist judgement, we have also recorded, as far as possible on a comparable basis, the same data for four other world cities: New York, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. Comparing city cultures contains three dangers: first, there is a general dearth of reliable data about cities and about culture. Second, the definition of culture is disputed, and finally, the definition of a city is disputed. GLA Economics has been working on all three of these questions and in this report, the basis of the definitions that we have adopted has been set out and explained. Our aim has been to follow world, European and expert standards on all of these on the grounds that while they can always be improved, they offer the greatest prospect for comparability. One of the surest ways to improve the quality of this data in future is to demonstrate its benefits and raise awareness of the importance of collecting it, measuring it accurately, and placing it in the public domain. This is one of several aims of this report. This is directed particularly to those who can help provide more and better data, both those active in the field of culture, and our partners and counterparts in other cities. We invite them to join us in making their good data still better.
1.1 Benchmarking city cultures

The first aim of this report is measurement and the second is comparison. It highlights what each of the five cities in our study have in common, and how they differ. The resulting focus on the city as a locus of cultural activities responds to a growing recognition of the role of place in culture, an old idea that has come full circle. Roman civilisation gave us the idea of a genius loci, the spirit of a place, which has come to mean its distinctive atmosphere, a guiding principle of architectural design. Under the influence of the Romantics, culture came to be seen as the preserve of the nation. But as cities have become international, so has their culture.1 By studying this process in widely varying locations, we aim to bring to light the renewed vitality of place and the citys distinctive cultural role. As meeting points and gateways for diverse national contributions, world cities have increasingly become cauldrons for cultural fusions. London, as it prepares for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, offers a unique mix of local quarters and global communities from Hampstead to Hackney, Notting Hill to Chinatown, and Brixton to Southall. These coexist with world class sites, combining heritage with a seemingly limitless capacity for innovation. Each emerging world city offers such a blend, but each blend is unique. The aim of comparison is not a bland global culture but the enhancement of diversity by means of connection. Londons world in one city is the heart of its cultural richness. Its attraction, like that of any place, is its distinctness and its variety. This report sheds light on what London shares with its comparators, and what is unique to each.
See for example Bradbury and McFarlane (1976), Abrahamson (2004), Harvey (2003), and Zukin (1995).
1.2 T he cultural environment and its economic impact

There is an intimate connection between the cultural and economic life of the moderncity. This has been most visible in the recent growth of the creative industries now employing one in every eightLondoners (GLA Economics 2007). These industries have economic effects beyond what they sell: spillovers include a capacity for innovation on which all Londons design-intensive industries feed. This is why Nissan, Virgin, Nokia, Ford and Volkswagen all have their design HQs in London.
Box 1.1: Indices of human and intellectual capital

In recent years measures of human and intellectual capital have attracted growing attention in financial circles.2 PWCs report Cities of Opportunity considers a number of these. Its Intellectual Capital Index incorporates the number of top universities, the percentage of the population with higher education qualifications and the number of Nobel Prize winners in each city, leading to the following scores:
Financial centre London Paris Tokyo New York Toronto Atlanta Los Angeles Chicago Frankfurt Singapore Shanghai
Ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Intellectual Capital Score 23 22 19 18 17 15 12 9 8 8 4
Y/Zen (2004).
Yet these commercial outcomes are the tip of the iceberg. What matters most, to those who live or work in a city, as much as its visitors, is its quality of life, of which culture is the essence. Cities offer not just a natural environment, but a built and cultural one. Londons air, rivers and green spaces are a backdrop; it falls to its building and activities to set the stage on which its life plays out. This is why the cultural quality of life of Londons citizens is an object of policy in its own right. Londons cultural environment also has a major impact on its competitive advantage. In the global market for quality personnel, a citys cultural offer can be decisive. When city officials wanted to persuade Boeing to locate their headquarters in Chicago, Abrahamson (2004:128) records that they dined them at the Art Institute, complete with string quartet.
Studies repeatedly show that modern service-led businesses locate where they can find the special talents of the workforce they need. In the City of Londons 2005 study on the competitiveness of global centres (Y/Zen 2005:49) availability of skilled personnel was ranked as the most important factor determining competitiveness above business infrastructure, regulatory environment, operational costs, availability of commercial property and ten other indicators. The cultural offer of any city shapes, attracts, and retains such workers. Londons cultural environment is thus one of its prime assets. This asset is not unconditionally available. Extending it, sustaining it, maintaining its diversity, and providing the whole of Londons population with access to it, are all essential goals of London policy.
James O Jenkins.
LDA.
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Section
Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

2.1 Scope of the report 2.2 Culture 2.3 World cities and their influences 2.4 A tale of four cities: New York, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo 2.5 No accident: Londons world status anditsconsequences
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Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices
2.1 Scope of the report This report is the first time that a comprehensive comparison of cultural activity on this scale has been undertaken. It contains unfilled gaps and unresolved complexities, and wouldhave achieved its aim if it did no more than point these out. It has however done more than this, amassing data which sheds genuine new light on Londons culture.
Our aim is to make this data available, demonstrate its use, and provoke others to help us produce what sound policy requires a robust and comprehensive evidence base. The next section explains the rationale behind what we have included.
2.2 Culture
Culture is not well-defined and its meaning music, or literature, from mere enactments, is debated. Freud (2004: 110) expressed a such as manners, customs or dress style. widespread nineteenth-century view: As recorded by Williams (1976, 1990), the idea then gained ground that culture [C]ulture, by which I mean everything in is a product, outside of society, which which human life has risen above its purely is employed by its consumers to make animal circumstancesincludes on the judgements on what they consider good or one hand all the knowledge and skill that bad, desirable or tasteless, cool or boring.3 humanity has acquired in order to control the forces of nature and obtain from it goods It was neither a long nor a difficult path to to satisfy human needs, and on the other conceive of culture as a saleable product hand all the institutions that are required to entertainment. By the end of world war II govern the relations of human beings one to Adorno and Horkheimer (1947) had coined another and in particular the distribution of the term cultural industries to refer to such goods as can be obtained. commercial cultural products, and in the late1990s, the term creative industries, In this, its broadest possible sense, developed in the UK, further refined this idea. culture extends to all mental and spiritual activities through which social relations This report applies definitions from the are reproduced, ranging from morals, growing literature on the economics of 4 manners, and customs, through scientific in particular emerging standards culture, and political ideas, to aesthetic activities promoted by the Organisation for Economic and tastes. As Elias (2000) records, the Cooperation and Development (OECD) German Enlightenment used the term 2007 and the United Nations Educational, to distinguish achievements, such as art, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
See OConnor (2007) for a comprehensive discussion of the origin of this term. Throsby (2001), Garnham (1990), Frey (2003).
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Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices
(UNESCO) 1986.5 These are, broadly, activities to which one or other of the following applies: they are distinguished by some form of symbolic meaning they are produced using some form of creativity their consumers assign cultural value to it, exercising aesthetic taste or discrimination they are alienated through some form of Intellectual Property As can be seen from the evolution of the idea of culture, we are reporting, in effect, on the tip of an iceberg: the visible, quantifiable (and frequently, saleable) part of a much larger bulk. We record what is measurable, for example numbers of cinemas or galleries, frequencies of visits to the theatre or time spent watching television or reading books. We make no judgement of cultural value whether one artistic product is better than another, or whether high art is intrinsically superior to popular culture.6 Indeed, since variety, diversity and access are all goals of cultural policy, bias must not be introduced by preferring, a priori, one particular genre or art form. This would privilege the consumption choices of fans or lites who prefer this art form. As regards its saleable qualities, culture is entirely relative, and there is no known scientific basis to rank the preferences of its purchasers either by the money they are able to pay, by the status that society affords them, or by the judgements that society makes of their merit.
Therefore this audit should not be seen as yet another league table. It does not set out to rank cities by cultural performance and this cannot be done, since there is no objective standard for comparing the worth of a play in Tokyo with a film in New York, a rock concert in London, an exhibition in Paris or an opera in Shanghai. The report is further confined to produced culture, involving work and costing money but including activities paid for indirectly, through state subsidies or patronage, for example many gallery and museum exhibits. Finally the focus is on cultural consumption: what a citys residents, workers and visitors find, enjoy and take part in here, whether sold commercially as with cinemas, books or DVDs, or free to the user as with museums and broadcasts. This leads to two main concerns: infrastructure, the institutions which make culture available such as theatres, libraries and other venues, and the use made of them: watching, reading, hearing, visiting, and participating. Our definition does not discount the many aspects of culture that are not measurable, or are informal and not produced, for example family life, community life or religious practices. Finally, because it is reported in more detail elsewhere, we have omitted sport and, for the most part, education. The intention is not to set an arbitrary limit on what is acceptable as culture and we hope future editions of this report will extend its coverage.
OECD (2007), UNESCO (1986). For discussions on whether there is an intrinsic standard of artistic or cultural worth, see Throsby (2001:28) orCarey(2006).
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2.3 World cities and their influences

Our comparators are all world cities, a conceptas debated as that of culture. Originating with Geddes (1915), it was reintroduced by Hall (1966) and developed by Friedman (1986), Sassen (1991) and others, latterly including work by the Global and World Cities project (GaWC) which emphasises connections between cities, notably travel and the location of global companies. In this report, it refers to cities with a significant independent role in the world economy whose features include one or more of: centres for the location of advanced producer services centres of command and control for governments and multinational corporations connecting nodes in the world networks established by trade and industry
Box 2.1: The Global and World Cities (GaWC) roster of world cities
The Global and World Cities (GaWC) research centre at Loughborough University classified the worlds cities using a list of advanced producer providers in four fields: banking, advertising, accountancy and legal service centres. They identified centres for global services in these four fields, either having world headquarters, or a large number of branch offices. They then assessed the degree to which these cities were connected: a connection exists when two cities contain offices of the same company. This led to the roster or hierarchy given in this box.
Alpha world cities (full service world cities) Beta world cities (major world cities) London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan. (To qualify as an alpha, a city must be a prime provider in all four advanced producer sectors). San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, Zurich, Brussels, Madrid, Mexico City, SaoPaulo, Moscow, Seoul.
Gamma world cities Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, Dsseldorf, Geneva, Houston, Jakarta, (minor world cities) Johannesburg, Melbourne, Osaka, Prague, Santiago, Taipei, Washington, Bangkok, Beijing, Montreal, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw, Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai.
Chart 2.1: connectedness among the top ten world cities
LN NY FF CH PA LA ML SG
Source: Beaverstock et al (1999).
TK HK
Shared presences of multinational companies at least 35 at least 30
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2.3.1 World cultural centres The GaWC roster is not the only possible way to classify world cities, and in particular does not take into account large media conglomerates, seven of which dominate the production and distribution Not all world cities are financial centres. of cultural products: Time-Warner, Disney, For example, Los Angeles does not Viacom, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, Sony, and challenge New Yorks hegemonic financial News Corporation. Of these New York, status; Berlin is Germanys capital though Frankfurt is its financial hub; and Brussels is for example, hosts the headquarters of universally recognised as a major European three (Time Warner, Disney, and Viacom). capital but an unlikely alternative location Conversely, Los Angeles, Toronto, or of choice for the world banking community. Mexico,which play a secondary or even Nor is financial agglomeration sufficient to minor financial role, have a greater status make a world city: Luxemburg is a financial in the production or diffusion of cultural industry products. and government centre and even home to a major media conglomerate, but is not Based on the presence of world and considered a world city. regional headquarters of cultural conglomerates, Abrahamson (2004) has Cultural offer, as Luxemburg also produced a ranking placing New York at the demonstrates, is not an automatic top, followed in second place by London, Los reflection of financial status and arises independently of it. Santa Fe (Mitchell and Angeles, Paris (home to the growing Vivendi 7 Reynis 2004) with the highest proportion of group), Sydney and Tokyo. Toronto is given third place and fourth goes to Cairo, Hong creative businesses per capita in the USA, Kong, Luxembourg, Manila, Mexico City, is a Mecca of cultural tourism. Liverpool in Mumbai, Nashville and Rio. the 1960s, and Nashville still, are bywords for world musical status. Local or satellite There are several reasons for paying centres of cultural distinctiveness or attention to these conglomerates. One is especial creativity, whether transient or their dominant role. The 2006 revenues of stable, play an undeniable role in forging the Disney Corporation were $34bn, with both national and international cultural assets of $53bn (of which $22bn is listed tastes and offers. as goodwill illustrating the importance of intangible assets in the cultural sector). A major reason for this study is to shed Time Warner reported 2006 revenues more light on the complex connection of $44bn and assets of $131bn (goodwill between world city roles, financial $41bn). Viacoms revenues totalled $11bn agglomeration, and cultural offer. and its assets $22bn.8 Whilst Gross Value Added (GVA) is significantly less than revenue (since it excludes operating costs), an idea of the scale of the conglomerates is provided by noting that the combined 2006 revenue of these three, all headquartered at New York, was approximately three Untraded and networked connections (see Neff 2005) also influence the way that ideas and trends spread from one to the other, being particularly significant for the spread of cultural influences.
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Abrahamsons study is confined to music, movies, and television. All data taken from corporate annual reports.
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quarters of the 2005 GVA of the UKs creative industries.9 Amore robust comparison is with the revenue of Exxon ($364bn), the largest oil major and the largest world corporation by capitalisation. The second reason, an early result of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Creative Economy Programme, is the synergy between these global
producers and the long tail of small producers, who are often oriented to them in their search for a world distribution chain. Thus, for example, a small creative startup, far from avoiding competition from a media giant, will often seek it out and may often even aim at being taken over. Foreign multinationals in the UK accounted for 20%of Layer 1 creative employment and 28% of turnover (28bn) in 2007.10
Table 2.2 Foreign-born populations of major cities containing more than one million employeesa
City Population (000) 2,253 735 442 4,648 1,967 4,468 9,519 2,076 5,449 9,314 1,731 4,730 3,961 3,367 651 1,339 Foreign born 1,148 348 162 2,091 768 1,687 3,449 747 1,893 3,140 555 1,478 1,236 960 181 3,701 Per cent foreign born 50.9 47.3 36.6 45.0 39.0 37.8 36.2 36.0 34.8 33.7 32.1 31.2 31.2 28.5 27.8 27.7 City Population (000) 7,172 978 1,248 1,248 943 2,814 1,609 4,178 3,389 1,051 3,319 1,019 6,162 8,273 7,968 Foreign born 1,940 260 282 281 205 606 338 855 664 194 607 182 1,082 1,426 191 Per cent foreign born 27.0 26.6 22.6 22.5 21.7 21.6 21.0 20.5 19.6 18.4 18.3 17.9 17.6 17.2 2.4 N/A
Miami Amsterdama The Haguea Toronto Vancouver

Mecca
London Brussels Munich Zurich

Calgary San Diego Brisbane Houston
Los Angeles
Tel Aviv Medina
Montreal Ottawa Singapore

Cologne
New York San Francisco

Riyadh
Sydney
Melbourne
Paris Chicago Tokyo Shanghai
Frankfurta
Tbilisi
Source: Benton-Short et al 2004. World cities ranked alpha, beta or gamma by GaWC shown in italics. Citydefinitions do not always coincide with those in this report. Note a): Top thirty cities with more than a million inhabitants, plus Tokyo for comparison. Amsterdam and the Hague are includedas part of the Randstad agglomeration (population 7.5m), and Frankfurt as part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main agglomeration (population 5.8m). Note b): the figure for foreign-born Londoners is lower than more recent results reported elsewhere in thisreport.
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For the DCMSs annual estimates see DCMS (2007). See Frontier Economics 2007.
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2.3.2 World immigration destinations World cities are also the locus of immigration flows and a feature of the modern city is the steadily growing proportion of foreign-born residents. This is an important determinant of cultural diversity particularly for London, whose multicultural population is a vital part of its attraction. Whilst the geographical basis of comparison is not identical to our own, a comprehensive study (Benton-Short et al 2004) indicates that though world cities tend to become population magnets, this is not always the case: Tokyo, for example, ranks 88 on a list of 100 cities in that report, in terms of the proportion of its population born abroad. This points to a need for caution in assuming any automatic connection between world city status and diversity.
Conversely some significant large cities are the destination of major immigration flows but do not figure in other lists of world cities. Mecca and Jerusalem arguably play aworld city role in a different sense from the purely economic. Other cities such as Tbilisi are centres of once much larger multinational territorial entities. Within a broad definition of culture neither can be left out of account, but these cities do not figure in world cities defined in more strictly economic terms. Nevertheless, more than two-thirds of those cities with large non-national populations are world cities on the GaWC list.
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Vaisakhi Piers Alladyce.
2.3.3 London and its comparators Culture has its own dynamics and determinants, and London is as unique inthis respect as its peers. However like
these peers, the background to its culture is a unique geography and a unique history, in a certain sense the primary assets of our audit.
Table 2.1 Main characteristics of comparator cities11

Indicator City definition used Geographical area size, SQ. KM 1,613 244,110 785 7,769,966 12,012 632,834 6,341 9,600,000 2,187 TBC Total population number 7,512,400 60,587,000 8,214,426 299,398,485 11,399,319 62,637,596 18,150,000 1,307,560,000 12,576,601 127,760,000 Per cent of national population living in the city 12% 3% 18% 1% 10% Average income per worker per year ($) $55,051 $45,513 $27,420 $25,267 $39,424 $28,117 $4,736 $2,532 $39,218 $27,501 Education level - % with degree level or higher 28% 19% 30% 25% 31% 19% 18% 6% 23% TBC
London UK New York USA Paris France Shanghai China Tokyo Japan
Greater London (GOR) New York City Ile de France Shanghai Municipality Prefecture
What distinguishes the comparators from each other? They are of similar size, but vary greatly in other respects: the proportion of the countrys population accounted for by each city, for instance, is low in China and the United States (where other equally large cities play an important world city role) but much greater in France, the UK, and Japan. Shanghai, the only emerging economy world city, stands out in terms of income per capita, but also in the numbers of the working age population that have tertiary education qualifications.
The data however shows consistently higher levels of income per capita and education than the national average. Both are important factors for the creative and cultural sectors, whose demand is driven bythe purchase of leisure products, in which high income earners are known to play an important role and educated earners seem likely to.
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The year in which the data is collected (most frequently 2006) varies. A full table including dates of collection is given in the data appendix.
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2.4 A tale of four cities: New York, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo
New York, New York, twicenamed archetype worldcity, became the dominant US financial centre in the nineteenth century.
Drawn to the statue at the Hudsons mouth, waves of immigrants turned it into the most cosmopolitan city on the eastern seaboard, in the process populating the artist-intellectual community of Greenwich Village, to which would-be planners of creative regeneration still turn for inspiration. With less than 3% of the US population, New York is home to over a third of the countrys actors, around 27% of its fashion designers, 7% of fine artists and an army of 10,000 journalists. Like London, it has harnessed its cultural diversity to transform multiple experiences into a huge range of cultural activities from world class arts collection to innovative popular music.
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Shanghai image courtesy of Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference Shanghai Committee.
This section concentrates on the main historical and geographical characteristics of the cities chosen. Most importantly, the cities are distinguished by their geography and history. Three are capitals London, Paris, and Tokyo, the latter only since the late nineteenth century. New York is the only world class financial centre which is not a capital city, although if Europe is taken as the territory of reference for Paris and London, then both afford some comparison with New York, Brussels being the principal centre for European Federal Government. All five are port cities, Paris alone being confined to river access.
Having seen off competition from the likesof Chicago, it then rose to world prominence at the turn of the century, harnessing the new technologies of steel, concrete and mobile electrical power to give the world a new iconic skyline Manhattan. Our only comparator untouched by war, New Yorks rise to financial superpower status was virtually uninterrupted, the crash of 1929 serving only to consolidate its grip on an emerging postwar order which Wall Street and Washington worked hand in hand to shape.
Paris, historical centre of the oldest definable national territory in the world dating back to Gallo-Roman times, was for centuries the de facto cultural capital of Europe.
French was (Taylor 1954: xxiii) the world language of the governing elites and classes of Europe until 1914.12 The French revolution, exported on horseback by Napoleon, defined the framework of European law and politics throughout the nineteenth century. Haussmanns majestic mid-century reconstruction gave central Paris its eternal and skyscraper-free skyline. Acaf atmosphere combined with waves of artistic innovation to build, on this foundation, a city almost synonymous with the good life. One need only recall Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Surrealism and Existentialism, not to mention Postmodernism, 1968 and Situationism, to recognise the profound and recurrent impact of Paris on western culture. A synonym for Haute Cuisine and Haute Couture, Paris remains home to popular cultural innovations like the Paris-Plage urban beach, now copied around the world, a vibrant cinema culture and not least, the Pompidou centre, a resoundingly successful early attempt to put contemporary and modern art within popular reach. An important illustration of Pariss culturally centralising role, perhaps now characteristic of all cultural world cities, was its early role as diffusion centre for artistic movements which did not originate
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there. Every tourist in the world can recognise a Paris Metro sign. How many have heard of Victor Horta with whom its Art Nouveau style originated, let alone seen the Brussels house from which he launched the movement? A significant financial rival to London in the mid-nineteenth century, Paris faded in financial terms to second-rank status in the twentieth century. Its attempts to rival London as a financial centre in the 1990s are widely considered, like Frankfurts, to have failed.13 But Paris-based media conglomerate Vivendi, having taken over the iconic Universal Studios with its 2000 purchase of Seagram, has risen to rival the US heavyweights, amply demonstrating Pariss capacity for world leadership based on its historical strengths.
The largest city featured in this report, with a population of over 18 million people, Shanghai is also one of the fastest-changing cities in theworld.
Pudong, on the eastern bank of the Huangpu River, is Chinas Manhattan, a huge area of skyscrapers, all built in the last ten years, on what was previously farmland. Shanghai was an emergent financial hub of South-East Asias economy in the 1930s and has now aspired again to world city status.14 It has also been the centre of popular culture in China since the early twentieth century Chinas first films were produced in Shanghai and more recently the city has been investing heavily in new cultural institutions, such as the Shanghai Grand
Edward Grey, the 1905 Liberal foreign minister who said the lights are going out all over Europe, was the first to address European ambassadors in English. 13 See Cassis (2006:2712). 14 Qu Shijing (2006) contains a comparison of Shanghais cultural offer with six other world cities, relating this to their financial status.
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Theatre; the Shanghai Museum, and the Shanghai Art Museum, to better reflect its global profile.
Tokyos cultural influence arises not just from Japanese contributions to popular culture think Anime, Pokemon, Sudoku but the effective capitalisation of an early lead in electronics and information Tokyo, while the largest and technology, as evidenced from the growth most cosmopolitan of Japans of consumer electronics giants such as cities, is not widely considered Sony. After the failure of its BetaMax to be the cultural heart of the video recording format, Sony realised that country, which remains as Kyoto. making devices was an insufficient basis to establish and retain world leadership and turned to the effective management However, having witnessed massive of content (music, films, games), creating population and economic growth in the a vertical empire of the entertainment post-war years, Tokyo has benefited from world ranking with the greats. The vital the increasing concentration of global relationship between hardware and economic functions such as finance, culturalcontent was understood even information services and media. As earlier by Nintendo. After successive befits a capital city, though, it is now evolutions as nineteenth century home to the majority of Japans national producer of handmade playing cards, museums and its internationally-acclaimed 1960s manufacturer of electronic toys, it cuisine recently overtook Paris with its established, in effect, an entirely new art restaurants gathering twice as many stars form, its name with Sony being almost in the recent Michelin guide. synonymous with computer gaming. Tokyos recent history is an object lesson in the importance of depth and the error of haste in assessing financial status. The 80s saw a meteoric rise to financial stardom at the end of which all 10 top world banks were Japanese (Cassis 2006: 268), only to stagnate through the 90s and end abruptly with the Asian financial crisis of 1997. By 2001 seven top banks were American, twoGerman, one Swiss, none British and none Japanese.
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2.5 No accident: Londons world status and its consequences

The single most globalised World City, London (McKinsey 2007) has in a historically short period become the de facto financial capital of Europe, the location of choice for finance, and New Yorks latest heavyweight challenger. Cassis (2006: 269) incisive analysis, as relevant to culture as finance, spells out the depth, strengths and dangers of its rise: The City has never really had, and still does not have, any choice. It could only become, and can only remain, a global financial centre in the same vein as NewYork and Tokyo by being completely internationalised. The alternative is a financial centre commensurate with the British economy that is to say, bearing in mind a number of competitive advantages, slightly larger than Paris or Frankfurt. In culture as in finance, Londons history cannot be separated from the worlds. What makes it unique is its role in the international economy, above all world commerce.15 This explains not only its extraordinary financial resilience persisting and extending as Tokyo, Paris, and Frankfurt fell but successive reconstructions. First as a political, then anaval, then a commercial centre; next asa financial centre and then in decline as a glorified reshipment centre, transiently as an unexpected manufacturing base andfinally, ending a prolonged postwar eclipse in New Yorks brilliant light, its comet-like resurgence as the latest world financial supernova.
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The former heart of an empire once covering 37 million square kilometres a fifth of all land not under ice London was the centre of British naval world predominance, and the focus of world trade routes which historical persistence and geographical situation have safeguarded against obliteration. Its situation gives it an opening to the Atlantic, the Baltic and to mainland Europe, a geographical advantage which in the age of information extends to a position as central node between the three key time zones of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Capital city of the industrial revolution, it was notwithstanding the rise of the Atlantic ports the primary outlet for the manufactured products which assured British dominance until the end of the nineteenth century.
As with Paris and Art Nouveau, and for that matter New York with jazz, Londons core strength is its role as diffusion centre and meeting place. Ideas and inventions may happen anywhere, but they come to London to reach the world. This is Londons greatest asset and, history has shown, its most enduring.
London is not without weaknesses, and one purpose of this report is to identify them. An undoubted world centre for the enjoyment and dissemination of the arts, it does not enjoy the iconic status for origination occupied by, say, Los Angeles for film, Paris for fashion, or Tokyo for games. True, it is the point of departure for worldshaking cultural innovations think BritArt, Bhangra and Bend it Like Beckham, and it is also the centre of Europes advertising These same circumstances have made and design industries. Yet Londons need London home to the vibrant global culture for global cultural commercial reach already described. This has many new is highlighted by EMIs difficulties, the elements, but also harks back to earlier limits of a nation so much smaller than phases of English culture whose true debt its audience which the BBC encounters at to the world was veiled by imperial illusions every turn, and Murdochs easy conquest in superiority. Much that is celebrated as of its popular heights or, depending on English owes more to world insertion than viewpoint, depths. native genius. The Victorian imagination For all these reasons, Londons cultural evangelised by Kipling, dissected by offer should never be taken for granted. Forster and globalised by Disney dwelt Thehistory of all our comparator cities on the exotic lands the colonisers stumbled shows that cultural recognition is perhaps on, not the unremarkable hamlets from the hardest of all endorsements to win, which they sallied. Four hundred years and is earned as much as granted. It is to earlier Shakespeare wrote of Venice, Verona, behoped this report will assist. Denmark, Rome and Athens as if they were neighbouring villages.
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Determinants of cultural demand
3.1 Drivers of a growth market 3.2 Creativity: A core activity 3.3 Forgotten but not gone: Public spending and patronage
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Section 3 D eterminants of cultural demand
Determinants of cultural demand This section looks at monetary sources of demand for culturalproducts, as further background to the main part ofthe report. Evidence is not always available at city level andthis is an important goal of future research.
However such evidence as there is offers indicators of trends, which helps plan for the future, and sheds light on the relative weight of private consumers, business, exports, and government. This, we hope, provides market intelligence and should also help policy-makers make provision for the infrastructure needed to satisfy the clearly growing demand for culture.
3.1 Drivers of a growth market

The most striking feature of the demand for cultural and creative products (see for example GLA 2002, DCMS 2007, European Creative Industries website) is that it is growing faster than both income and population. The main drivers of this growthare private consumers and business. By 1996, UK demand for creative products (as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS 2006)) exceeded demand for food. And by 1995, business demand for creative products exceeded demand for products of the banking and finance industries.
Chart 3.1 Consumer demand for creative products in the UK

260 240 bn at current prices 220 200 180 160 140 120 100 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 Year Creative products Food products
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This reflects two changes of which the first is the additional demand created by high incomes, which leads to enhanced spending on income-elastic goods such as creative and leisure products. The second change, which we discuss now, is the transition to a service-based economy.
In 2005, for the first time, the majority of the worlds population was living in urban areas. Urbanisation is driven by both supply and demand. The pull of new employment is not automatic: the push of emigration takes place whether or not city jobs are created. Latin America is more urbanised than both Europe and Japan, but as in the By 2005, 60% of all US consumer rest of the third world, Latin American cities expenditure was on services, double are overshadowed by slum growth, a sure what it was in 1945.16 Behind this lies two sign that new drivers of employment have powerful and interconnected factors: the 90 not arisen to absorb migration. rise of cities and the service revolution.
80 70 Chart 3.2 Business demand for creative products in the UK bn at current prices 90 80 70 bn at current prices 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 94 Year 04 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 94 Year 04
Advertising, architecture, software Banking and finance 90% Source: GLA Economics and ONS input-output tables 80% 70%
Chart 3.3 Proportion of the worlds population living in urban areas

90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 Year
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50% 40% 30% 20% 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 Year Japan Europe 85 90 95 00 05 Source: United Nations Latin America North America 85
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In the developed countries a new source of jobs has been found, in which cities lead the way: Services. By the 1970s, employment in the goods industries in industrialised countries began to fall absolutely, a particularly steep decline starting in the
UK as shown in chart 3.4. But service employment, which has risen continuously since 1841, took up most of the slack. In the US this pattern began even earlier, with service employment rising from 55% of jobs in 1940 to 83% in 2005.
Chart 3.4 UK employment in goods and service industries 18412001

80% Proportion of total employment 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1881 1951 Year 1971 1981 1991 2001 Source: UK census and Humphrey Southall, Portsmouth Goods industries = manufacturing, agriculture, utilities, and construction 1841 1931 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Millions of jobs
Proportion of total jobs in service industries Employees in service industries (right scale) Employees in goods industries (right scale)
The goods-producing sectors, accounting now for only 22% of UK employment and 17% of US employment, are thus not responsible for the modern growth of the major cities of the industrialised world. Thecity and its culture must be understood as a locus of service production.
the emergence of the new city hierarchy described in section 2. It also determines several critical aspects of city culture.
A characteristic cityscape in which tightly agglomerated offices, shops and passenger transport nodes replace factories, docks and goods yards, The service relationship requires humans to producing characteristic central business interact directly with each other. Because and skyscraper districts of mass communications and the internet, Increasingly skilled, mental and creative this interaction now spans continents. work processes But as commentators have noted (Sassen A global professional class for whom the 1991), this has actually concentrated service location of jobs is often more important providers in the cities, which offer the most than country of origin prized forms of interaction such as face A cultural consumer class for which to-face meeting. This has driven the rise leisure and cultural activities is an of the business district, the skyscraper, the integral part of the quality of life concentration of global headquarters, and
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This does not imply homogenisation. Citiesremain divided by income, status andqualification income differentials being higher than 30 years ago. Service industries still use manual labour, and the modern low-paid are transport workers, cleaners, security staff, or retail and hospitality staff. In todays world city,
the2,000-a-day consultant will be carried to work by a 2,000-a-month train driver, where she or he will be admitted by a 50-a-day guard to an office made usable by 5-an-hour cleaner. The citys culture is a complex reflection of the conflicts and synergies to which this potent mix gives rise.
3.2 Creativity: a core activity

Table 3.1 Workforce employment in the creative industries
Thousands of workforce jobs London 1995 Publishing Leisure software Music and the Visual and Performing Arts Radio and Television Advertising Film and Video Architecture Arts and Antiques Fashion Creatively occupied outside the creative industries Total 66 42 58 London 2000 80 77 74 London 2005 78 78 70 UK 2005 197 349 213 London per cent of total creative 14% 14% 13% London per cent of UK 40% 22% 33%
37 28 19 13 6 3 132
44 42 24 12 8 5 181
48 38 25 12 7 4 194
90 104 60 65 40 19 1,047
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We now briefly turn to the new sources of demand that have arisen in the new, service-driven city. The best source of evidence for this demand, as noted, comes from the creative industries. As stressed in this report, culture cannot be reduced to its commercial sale. These industries almost certainly do however, provide the best evidence of trends, otherwise beyond the scope of this report. They provide particularly strong evidence that demand is rising ahead of that for most other products.17 This has important policy implications: an activity for which demand is rising requires a disproportionate growth in provision. Public attention has focused on these industries as a source of both wealth and growth. Table 3.1 summarises employment in these industries and shows how they
compare with employment in the UK as a whole. It illustrates the dominance of the big three creative employers: Publishing, Leisure software, and Music and the Visual and Performing Arts. It also illustrates Londons tremendous dominance in the creative industries when compared with the UK, with particularly heavy concentrations of Radio and Television, Film and Video, Publishing, Advertising, and in Music and the Visual and Performing Arts. When its surrounding regions are included London can be seen to provide nearly 60% of UK creative employment, the comparable figure for employment as a whole being 38%. Finally a comparison of growth in the 90s with that from 20002005 illustrates the sensitivity of Londons creative employment to the business cycle, discussed at greater length in GLA Economics (2007).
Table 3.2 Growth of GVA of the creative and other sectors of the UK Economy
Annual average growth rate 19922004 Advertising Creative industries Whole economy Banking and Finance 8.5% 6.8% 5.5% 2.8%
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The DCMS Creative Economy Programme has rendered a great service in making a huge volume of evidence available which yet needs to be digested. In addition, the European Creative Industries Laboratory has amassed anenormous and, in the UK, largely unrecognised mass of comparative data.
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The size of the creative industries as a source of employment is reflected in their contribution to output and above all trade. UNESCO (1999) estimates that world trade in all cultural goods amounted to $125bn in 1985 and had by 1999 grown to $400bn. Up-to-date figures for London Gross Value Added (GVA) are not available, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 2006 input-output tables supply figures for the UK which permit approximate comparisons with other sectors. Creative Industry GVA on the ONS definition (which differs slightly from that of the DCMS) was 92bn, larger than the GVA of the whole financial sector (85bn) and 14% of the private non-financial sector (643bn) and nearly 9% of the whole economy.18 These industries are also among the fastest growing as shown in table 3.2.
3.2.1 Creative drivers: Advertising, Design, Architecture and Software Since UK industries spend more on creative products than on financial services, it is hardly surprising that by 2005, 52% of all demand for creative products came from private businesses.19 It is easy to ignore this key source of demand because its customers are mainly businesses, and the consumerfacing focus of this report obliges us to spend less time on them than they deserve. There are however at least three reasons for singling them out for attention. First, business-oriented creative providers are producers of wealth and suppliers of value in their own right and account for much of the growth of the creative industries. Between them they account for 42% of creative industry output.
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Trafalgar Square Festival James O Jenkins.
Box 3.1: Londons advertising industry

Two thirds of all international advertising agencies have their European headquarters in London (DCMS 2001). Londons advertising industry can be simplistically split into creative advertising agencies, which think up and turn creative ideas into advertisements and media agencies, which buy and place these adverts in the most appropriate media TV, press, radio, online, and so on. According to the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, advertising funds 75% of commercial television, 95% of national press, 80%ofmagazines and 95% of commercial radio. The UK has the biggest advertising expenditure in Europe and the third biggest in the world after the USA and Japan (Advertising Standards Agency 2007). London is acknowledged as one of the three global capitals for advertising alongside NewYork and Tokyo (NESTA 2006), as one of the two world centres for creative advertising. It has a particularly central role in co-ordinating advertising briefs that span several countries and a number of media types. Subcontracts are farmed out to specialists in each media branch and often other countries, but London agencies tend to play the role of creative director for the campaign as a whole. This can make it difficult to estimate the true impact of a given specialist enterprise, but one measure is furnished by awards created by the industry itself, which has a relatively high degree of self-regulation. The table below, taken from the industry-recognised Gunn Report (Flaxman Wilkie 2004) ranks top agencies, together with their headquarters city, by their creative prizes won worldwide.
Agency Wieden and Kennedy Dentsu Abbot Mead Vickers DDBO BMP DDB Lowe Bartle Bogle Hegarty Arnold Worldwide Saatchi and Saatchi TBWA London Fallon Country US Japan UK UK US UK US UK UK US Points 165 150 150 148 116 107 106 106 101 100
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Second, they are, with government, a driver of indirect demand for cultural products. This can be seen for a core element of Londons creative industries: its advertising industry. The value directly added by the advertising industry in 2004 was 5.7bn, and its output as 9.8bn. Demand for advertising products was 22.4bn. The industry was hence responsible, directly or indirectly, for 16.7bn in purchases from other industries. It purchased just over four billion pounds worth of services and goods from other industries, and (assuming that itwas responsible for the remaining demand) it generated a further 12.6bn in advertising revenue accruing to industries principally creative not classified as advertisers. The third and perhaps most important role of business-oriented industries is that they directly impact the private consumer because, as with so many cultural products, they generate spillovers or, to use the technical economic term, external benefits (or, if handled badly, detriments) which impact not on the purchaser but the public as a whole.
This is as obvious as it is ignored, for the sinequa non of culture: architecture. After food and possibly clothing, architecture is arguably the most universally-consumed product of modernity. Some people use machines, and some do not. Some use power and some do not, some the telephone and others not. However, everybody uses buildings. Next to language, they are the most enduring, anddefinitive hallmark of any culture, and that of each of our comparators is indissociable from its skyline. This report focuses on cultural buildings such as museums, theatres, cinemas or galleries, but it should not be forgotten that there is no cultural activity described in this report which does not take place either in buildings or in a spaces defined by them.
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3.3 Forgotten but not gone: public spending and patronage

The copious further evidence of the growth in private consumption (DCMS,GLA Economics 2002, 2004, 2007,European Creative Industries website) will not be repeated here. Beforefinally moving to the main body ofthe report however, a final brief mention of two further important sourcesof demand is needed: public spending and private patronage. There is a surprisingly wide political consensus on the need for public spending on the arts. This consensus can be concealed by very passionate disputes about the merits of particular investments, which disguise the fact that the dispute is less about whether money should be spent, than what it should be spent on. As Cowen (2006) notes, national arts funding bodies in the US, after considerable discussion, survived the Gingrich revolution in strong shape. As this report shows, US cities are certainly not under-endowed when it comes to bedrock investment in galleries and museums. The UK Arts Council is often considered to be one of the most intact parts of the UK welfare state. It is probably no exaggeration to say that the defence of French culture is virtually sacred, and Japanese and Chinese approaches to the preservation and extension of culture are legendary. There are two reasons for this. One is anemerging economic consensus, as recognised by Frey (2003), Throsby (2001) and Cowen (2006). Many economists who are otherwise strongly committed to the market also support public spending on the arts. A wide variety of reasons are advanced (see for example Frey 2003:2 and Cowen 2006) of which the strongest are that culture generates external benefits: the rationale of public spending is to ensure that these benefits are realised and captured. These include benefits peculiar to culture, for example non-user benefits which accrue to society as a whole, not any particular individual, existence value, which means that the benefit of a cultural asset applies to individuals who never see or hear it, option value which means that people benefit from being able to go to an event, even if they choose not to, and bequest value which means they benefit from being able to leave culture to future generations. A second reason is that culture, and access to it, is in effect a human right, something indispensable. It is an intrinsic part of having a society, and therefore, the option of doing without it does not exist any more than, for example, the option of doing without the planet Earth. Put less dramatically, it is a matter of political and social choice, which is why, for example, the GLA has a statutory duty, under the GLA Act, to have a Cultural Strategy. This does not make hard-headed decision-making about economic policy irrelevant, since both public subsidy and the market are an important means of delivering the objectives of policy and since different policies lead to different social objectives being achieved. One policy, for example, may be to privilege high art and another to privilege popular art; yet a third may value experimental art forms. Alternatively a mix of all of these corresponds to the objective of pluralism of art forms, general access to culture, and social inclusion. This is however a choice between different forms of intervention. The case for economic intervention is widely accepted and the issues surrounding policy tend to focus on what kind of intervention is appropriate.
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Beside the recognition of the merit of direct public support there is a longstanding recognition by US private business, and a growing recognition by UK private business, of the benefits of patronage and philanthropy towards the arts. The strength of the US business arts lobby is well known and attempts to marshal business and private patronage in the UK, though lagging those of the US, are growing. Thus the organisation Arts and Business (see Appleyard 2006), estimates that total private sector funding of the arts rose 600,000 at its foundation to 530m in 2006 although Selwood (2006) sounds a note of caution
in arguing that at least some of this arises (often a pitfall in cultural measurement) from changes of definition. Table 3.3, from Selwood (2006), estimates the principal sources of public spending and their rate of change in recent years. It is easy to overlook additional streams of funding such as television license fees, and also the procurement of public buildings which constitutes spending on architectural services but is usually omitted from tallies of public spending on culture. Further disguised spending includes the tax revenue lost on tax concessions.
Table 3.3 Sources of public spending on culture in the UK

Spending Central government DCMS total Museums, Galleries and Libraries Arts Architecture and the Historic Environment Regional Cultural Consortiums Local government Archives Heritage Museums and Galleries Arts development and support; theatres and public entertainment Community centres Library services Total cultural and related services 2004/05 outturn 4,245,663 450,031 366,955 162,297 6,458 2003/04 outturn 47,647 33,679 203,836 361,568 86,663 914,716 3,823,679 Estimated per cent growth 97/9807/08 432.0 73.7 113.9 2.1 N/A 01/0203/04 1.0 N/.A 12.2 25.9 N/A N/A 12.3
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4.1 Data and indicators 4.2 How the data is presented
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Section 4 Approach and method of the audit
This report is an audit which concentrates on elements ofculture that can be quantitatively measured. It is entirely based on secondary data and no new data collection has beenundertaken.
In selecting indicators, the report has been guided by three principles: comparability, emerging best practice and recommendations, and avoiding undue repetition of existing work. The importance of these emerging international standards is the prospect they offer of robust comparisons. Best practice has therefore led us to: define culture using the domains and functions embedded within UNESCOs (1986) Framework for Cultural Statistics, the EUs Leadership Expert Group on Culture Statistics (2000), and the DCMS Evidence Toolkit (2004) develop a Culture Satellite Account Framework as outlined in the OECD (2007) To minimise repetition of existing work, this study does not focus on the supply of cultural and related creative products, their employment or output, though a brief summary was given in section 3. Since the publication of the first DCMS Creative Industries Mapping Document in 1998, there have been many studies of this nature, including GLA Economics regular reports on Londons creative industries. Instead, our focus is on the experience of culture. This therefore means principally organisations and sites where culture is performed, exhibited or sold here termed cultural infrastructure the output produced by this infrastructure, and the audience that participates in and consumes this output. This is represented graphically in Table 4.1 overleaf, with the density of the shading indicating which of the DCMS Evidence Toolkit (DET) cultural domains and functions have been covered most comprehensively in the research. In addition, further data is presented on two cross cutting themes that are not typically included within cultural statistical frameworks that use a logic of domains and functions, but are nevertheless important to understanding the culture of cities: cultural vitality: informal cultural production and consumption, together with other factors that add to the vibrancy (or buzz) of a city as experienced at street level cultural diversity: cultural production and consumption by, and for, a diverse range of demographic groups Despite our aim of providing comparable data there are limits to what they can reveal. As stated in section 2.2, culture expresses preferences on which absolute judgements cannot be made. It is not enough to know how many cultural assets a city has, but also their quality and how various communities of taste experience them. This study did not include qualitative research, but we have sought to place the data within an interpretative narrative to make sense of the raw data.
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Table 4.1 Main cultural domains and functions covered in the audit
Functions Creation Visual Arts Performance Cultural heritage Audio-visual Domains Books and Press Tourism Sport Making/ Production Dissemination Exhibition/ Consumption Preservation Education
Source: Adapted from DCMS (2004). Dense cells are covered most thoroughly. Blank cells are not covered.
4.1 Data and indicators

In undertaking the audit, a wider range of indicators were considered for inclusion in the report than appear in this final report. Those that did not make the grade were excluded either because (i) data was not available for a sufficiently large number of the cities or (ii) the data was simply not sufficiently comparable in some key way (time period, areal unit, category of activity/organisation etc.). Similarly, there are also some instances where data has been reported for most of the cities but omitted for another as it is not sufficiently comparable.20 Lastly on some occasions, the data is not sufficiently comparable enough to place in a table but is instead discussed discursively in the body of the text. This means that the remaining chosen indicators, that appear in the tables throughout the report, are internationally comparable and could be rolled forward as a time series. The chosen areal unit for the cities is: Greater London (32 London boroughs andthe City of London) New York City (the five boroughs) Paris City (postcode 75000; 20 arrondissements) Shanghai (19 districts and counties) Tokyo Prefecture (23 districts) When it has not been possible to obtain data for these geographies, but for others such as the New York Metropolitan area or Paris Ile de France, this has been clearly indicated in the main body of the report. GLA Economics reports (GLA 2004b) on themeasurement of world cities further clarify this point.
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4.2 How the data is presented

The data used in the audit is drawn from a wide range of sources. Further, within each set of data tables, data items from across the cities can also refer to different dates. In order to improve the readability of the document, the information on data sources and dates has been omitted from the tables contained within the main body of the report. Instead, this
Indicator Number of national museums Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008) London 22
information is contained in a full set of expanded datatables contained within the TechnicalAppendix (Appendix A). As a working example, the first indicator which you will find in table 5.1 (page 47) the number of national museums appears in the main body of text as follows:
New York 16
Paris 19
Shanghai 6
Tokyo 8
The corresponding entry for this indicator in the expanded data tables in the Technical Appendix looks like this:
Indicator National museums
City London New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo
Figure Date 22 2005 16 2005 19 2006 6 2006 8 2005
Source DCMS Annual Report Alliance for the Arts Office du Tourisme Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 Statistical Abstract: Social Education by TheMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology (MEXT)
In terms of structure, the report is divided into two main sections: Supply: cultural infrastructure and output Demand: participation/consumption andthe value of consumption
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5.1 Introduction 5.2 Cultural heritage 5.3 Visual and Performing Arts 5.4 Audio-visual 5.5 Books and press 5.6 Cultural vitality and diversity 5.7 Summary
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Section 5 Supply: Cultural infrastructure and output
5.1 Introduction Cultural infrastructure Londons present day cultural infrastructure, as with that ofParis, represents the accumulation of literally centuries ofsunk investment.
The British Museum was founded in 1753 by an Act of Parliament, Kew Gardens was established in 1759 and the Royal Academy of the Arts established a decade later in 1768. The National Gallery, now known as TateBritain, and the museum quarter on Exhibition Road, all opened their doors to the London public in the nineteenth century. The twentieth century continued this aggregation of major cultural assets in the capital with the establishment of (among many) the BBC in 1922, and the South Bank and Barbican Arts Complexes in 1951 and 1982. The Tate Modern fittingly ushered in the new millennium, going on to become the worlds most visited contemporary art gallery. But Londons cultural infrastructure is not just the history of public investment and royal patronage in predominantly high culture. It is also the historic centre of the UKs commercial, popular culture and entertainment industries: the book publishing trade, commercial theatre, Londons cinemas, musical and variety theatres and ballrooms many of which live on in other guises, principally as popular music venues (Shepherds Bush Empire, 1903, and Brixton Academy, 1929). In fact, as a result of this past investment, London has always excelled in the multi-use and re-use of its built and natural environment; in the continual choice of pubs, squares and parks as performance spaces, or in the transformation of its industrial heritage from tramshed to avant garde theatre (Centre 42, now The Roundhouse), or power station to modern art gallery (Tate Modern).
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Measuring the output produced by this infrastructure is not easy. Straightforward economic analyses of output in the cultural and creative sectors would focus on indicators such as GVA. While these are important to measure, there are real difficulties in assessing the output of some elements of the cultural sector using such traditional measures. Some cultural products and services such as museums, libraries and parks, are supplied free (or at least heavily subsidised) at the point of use. As Throsby (2001:chapter 2) notes, methodologies for estimating the economic value of cultural consumption are gaining acceptance. However they are complex and are not attempted here.
The statistics cannot always be derived from supply-side data on production, as this may include both of these categories. Rather, this report covers the supply of products and services to the local consumermarket by the organisations thatmake up the cultural infrastructure in each city. This is analogous to the component of GVA or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which corresponds to demand from private consumers.
Thankfully, some cultural support agenciesand trade associations do collect this kind of data on cultural output, as do listings publishers such as Time Out (albeit not for these purposes). And this is a key weakness of some data of this Another measure of the productivity of the type. Comparisons become difficult as sector is to look instead at the cultural output the data is shaped by the original purpose of the sector. This is the approach taken in for which it was collected, rather than this report, which examines the numbers by other considerations that might seem of shows, performances, exhibitions and more abstract, such as comparability titles etc., that are produced and sold by the and consistency over time, that would consumer-facing cultural infrastructure in nevertheless produce better data for London and the comparator cities. research purposes. For all of these reasons, much more information on output Collecting data on a citys cultural output is is presented for London than for the doubly difficult. Firstly, as for many cultural comparator cities. statistics, it is not collected by national statistical agencies (in general). Secondly, as this research is interested in understanding the range and volume of cultural products and services that are available to the consumer in each of the cities, the purpose is not to identify products and services that are exported or intermediate, for example those sold to institutional users, such as the books that publishers sell directly to libraries and universities.
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5.2 Cultural heritage

The turning over transformation, adaptation, re-use of built and natural assets is what, arguably, stops London from succumbing to what has been claimed of other cities in old Europe, that Europeans tiptoe in their cities as in museums because their cities are museums. 21 Thus while London actually has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any of the other cities (four), these are relatively isolated assets: The Tower of London, Palace of Westminster, Greenwich Maritime College and Kew Gardens. The designation does not relate to whole areas or quarters of the city, as it does in many cases. One of Paris two World Heritage sites, for instance, is a large area of the banks of the River Seine. London has no quarter of comparable scale that exemplifies such a historical unity in its architecture. It is a mlange of styles and juxtapositions. UNESCO World Status designation, then, is not only difficult to compare on a numerical basis, but it is also ambiguous in what it says about a citys present day culture. lead in terms of the number and (likely) diversity of museums. As with libraries, municipal provision of museums is a feature of many societies and local state run or supported museums account for many of the other museums counted in Table 5.1 in both London and Paris. In part, of course, variations arise from cultural differences. Museums in Japan, for instance, are a relatively new cultural innovation in comparison with the European capitals. The oldest museum in Japan, the Tokyo National Museum, opened in 1878, approximately a century after the British Museum and The Louvre (the Musum Central des Arts as it was then known). The other four of the Top five most visited museums in Japan were all established after 1920, and both the Japanese and Chinese are still enthusiastic builders of new public museums and galleries.
While New York has three cultural behemoths of the museum world the Metropolitan, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Guggenheim the city Museums arguably suffers by dint of not being the The comparisons with the other cities in the US capital. Washington, and not New York, research does, though, show that London is has the countrys greatest mass of major a city of museums. The growth of museums museums, largely due to the Smithsonian Institutions 17 museums and the affiliated for the general public has been directly National Gallery of Art. The greater linked to the development of an audience polycentricism of the US urban system via education, and England was a pioneer when compared with France and the UK in this respect. Universal compulsory for example also means that there are education provided a major stimulus to large museums with high quality collections transforming what were previously the in many other US cities, such as Chicago, cabinet of curiosities of the rich into the Philadelphia, Houston and Los Angeles. modern day museum. This long tradition of museology still shows, London and Paris
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Italics taken from the original quotation by the Hungarian writer and philosopher Agnes Heller, cited in KevinRobins in Carter et al (1993).
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Libraries Public libraries have arguably a longer duration than museums in both European and American societies. Early libraries that were under the stewardship of municipalities existed in Norwich in England and Boston in Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century for example. But in England, public libraries as we now know them date from the Public Libraries Act of 1850. Public libraries have always had a clear pedagogic as well as a cultural
role and, largely because of this status, they are the only form of cultural provision for which local authorities in England are statutorily obliged to provide. In turn, the universal nature of their provision in the UK and in many other countries means that public libraries are the element of cultural infrastructure that is most evenly distributed, and this shows up well across the comparators in table 5.1.
Table 5.1 Cultural heritage infrastructure and output in the five comparator cities
Indicator Number of national museums Number of other museums Number of public libraries Number of public libraries per 100,000 population Number of book loans by public libraries per year (million) Number of book loans by public libraries per capita per year Number of UNESCO world heritage sites % of land mass accounted for by green space and water Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008) London New York 22 162 395 5 38 5 4 66% 16 85 255 3 15 2 1 5% Paris Shanghai 19 138 303 N/A N/A N/A 2 N/A 6 100 248 1 11 1 0 36% Tokyo 8 71 369 3 84 7 0 36%
Looking at the output of Londons public libraries, 38.4m books were lent in 200506, according to the industry-standard CIPFA (2006) Public Library Statistics. This equates
to approximately five book loans per person per year. Tokyos libraries lend more books per capita per year than in London, with London leading in number of libraries.
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Natural environment Londons parks, gardens and squares are culturally produced and are also part of our cultural heritage, having been worked upon by creative labour over the centuries. This encompasses the formal and commerciallytransacted activities of architects and landscape designers in the design of Londons major green spaces, such as John Nashs and Victorian garden designer William Nesfields work in designing Regents Park. But it also includes a myriad of smaller-scale and often informal
interventions by residents and businesses. Parks and gardens, when combined with the capitals rivers and other green spaces woodlands, meadows, grasslands, golf courses, sports pitches etc. account for a remarkable 66% of Greater Londons land mass. As table 5.2 has shown, this exceeds any other comparator city and the amount of green space contributes significantly to the liveability of London, as well as providing lungs for the city.
Chart 5.1 Strategic green spaces in London
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Metropolitan Open Land Green Belt Lee Valley Regional Park (within London) 1 Blackheath 2 Burgess Park 3 Bushy Park (royal park) 4 Colne Valley Regional Park 5 Epping Forest 6 Green Park (royal park) 7 Greenwich Park (royal park) 8 Hampton Court Park 9 Hampstead Heath 10 Hyde Park (royal park) 11 Kensington Gardens (royal park) 12 Mile End Park 13 Mitcham Common 14 Osterley Park 15 Regents Park (royal park) 16 Richmond Park (royal park) 17 St. Jamess Park (royal park) 18 SE London Green Chain 19 Thames Chase Community Forest 20 Wimbledon Common
Diagram: GLA, The London Plan 2008 www.London.gov.uk/TheLondonPlan Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Greater London Authority 100032379 (2007)
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5.3 Visual and Performing Arts

Theatre There are few things more closely associated with London in the eyes of international tourists and business travellers than West End theatre, the contemporary visual arts and Londons live music scene. Despite this, counting the number of venues in which these activities take place is one of the more challenging areas of the research, starting with theatre. Theatre covers a wide range of programming and venues and, with the partial exception of New York, exhibits a typically mixed economy across all cities in the research, in which wholly commercial provision sits alongside publicly-funded theatres; and venues atall points in between Fringe theatre short run, often experimental and/or produced by semiprofessionals or amateurs is a crucial part of a citys theatrical innovation system. It is also the hardest to track as it largely takes place outside theatres: in rooms above pubs and cafes, in mixed use arts centres, and in the deserted and marginal spaces of the city:empty warehouses, disused underground stations, de-commissioned hospitals, and so on In some countries, it is not possible to make a distinction between theatre venues and other cultural venues that host similar performing arts events, such as music and dance. This is the case in Tokyo, where multi-purpose venues function as theatres, concert halls and general performance spaces For this reason, the statistics presented in table 5.2 focus firstly on major theatres. For London, these are the venues covered by the Society of London Theatres (SOLT), which means the major commercial and grant-aided theatres in central London. Although the 55 SOLT members include organisations such as The National Theatre, The Royal Court and the Barbican Theatre, it is an appropriate comparison to make with the 39 Broadway Theatres listed for New York by The Broadway League (formerly League of American Theatres andProducers). The next tier of theatre provision is the neighbourhood-based, but not Fringe, theatre. In London this would cover venues such as The Tricycle or Queens Theatre Hornchurch, and Time Out London lists 20 of these venues in its Off West End category. In New York, there are a further 59 venues classed as Off Broadway by The Broadway League. As these figures indicate, the infrastructure of probably the two most famous theatrical cities in the world is, in the round, almost identical. This trend continues for venues that programme fringe theatre: on the same day in December 2007 (20th) there were performances of Fringe theatre in 32 venues in London and performances in 27 Off off Broadway venues in New York.22
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The total number of theatre and concert halls in each city was identified as a secondindicator that would allow for a better comparison across more of the cities. Looking at this indicator, while the strength of Londons infrastructure remains, NewYork has fewer venues than the other three cities. This may be due to the general lack of public-funding for cultural organisations and venues in New York when compared with all the other cities.
The strength of the London stage is also demonstrated in its output, with the number of performances produced by thecapitals major commercial and grantaided theatres eclipsing those in othercities. Paris surprisingly appears as Londons closet rival on this indicator, but this is not a strictly direct comparison as theParis figures includes all private theatres, rather than simply the major ones. For this reason, NewYork is still the closest comparator city as the figures relate to Broadway theatres only.
Table 5.2 Visual and performing arts infrastructure and output in the five comparatorcities
Indicator Number of major theatres Number of theatrical performances at major theatres per year (1) Total number of theatres and concert halls Number of music venues Number of major concert halls Number of music performances per year (2) Number of public art galleries Number of specialist arts/cultural HE establishments Number of students at specialist art and designinstitutions London 55 17,285 215 400 9 32,292 92 12 50,130 New York 39 12,045 111 151 12 22,204 N/A 7 N/A Paris N/A 15,598 158 122 5 3,612 59 3 1,440 Shanghai 19 3,117 137 148 2 11,736 6 15 10,000 Tokyo N/A 8,281 132 132 N/A 7,419 40 N/A 7,355
(1) Figures for Paris and Tokyo relate to performances at all theatres not just major ones (2) Figures for Paris derived from a national figure for France Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008)
Looking at the type of output of Londons theatres, Time Out data shows that there were 111 different theatre productions (not performances) staged in just one week in October 2007.23 While there is no question that the biggest and most popular shows are in the West End, the bulk of theatrical productions are actually put on by Fringe
venues (48%) or Off West End venues (29%), compared with the 23% of productions that take place in the West End. Arguably, this diversity of output rather than simply the headline-grabbing blockbuster productions is the best indicator of the health of a world citys theatre scene.
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Music Counting the number of music venues presents similar problems to identifying theatres in that live music is performed in (i) dedicated music venues such as The Astoria or the Vortex (ii) other cultural venues (e.g. The Barbican Theatre, Bloomsbury Theatre) as well as in (iii) many non-cultural venues such as pubs, churches, bars, student campuses, sports stadia, parks, and so on. While all the other cities have a broadly comparable number, London appears to have a disproportionately larger set of music venues. While this may be affected by differences in what has been classified as a music venue across each of the data sources, the London figure is consistent with the large volume of output of musical performances produced in the UKs capital.
When looking at output, London emerges as the undisputed home of live music across the cities, according to the data presented in table 5.2. The major note of caution to sound is that the statistic for Paris is derived from a figure for the total number of performances in France and looks unusually low (though even if the true figure were five times larger than at present, it would not alter the position of the top two cities using this indicator). The London Time Out data presented in box 5.3 fleshes out exactly how one city manages to produce over 32,000 musical performances in a year.24
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Galleries Identifying the gallery infrastructure of cities presents different problems again to theatre and music. In particular, discretely identifying commercial art galleries that are open to the public is difficult as many classifications combine these organisations and venues with art dealers, who work predominantly in a business-to-business
market. Even here, combined figures could only be identified for London and New York. The two figures do seem to indicate the continued pre-eminence of New York as the centre of the commercial contemporary art world, as the city is home to 1,522 art galleries and dealers, compared with 766 inLondon.25
Chart 5.2 Map of visual arts galleries in East London that participate in the Time Out/ACE First Thursday late openings
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Source: First Thursdays (Time Out/ACE)/Google Maps (2008)
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A second issue, however, relates to the small-scale and often economically marginal nature of running a gallery. This means that contemporary visual arts galleries can be transitory; opening to take advantage of temporary, and/or temporarily, cheap space. It is therefore difficult to pick up many small galleries in traditional data sources on businesses and organisations. In particular, the density of galleries, studios and artists that has taken root in east London over the last decade is mainly invisible using standard business database sources.26 But asmall indication of their number is provided in chart 5.2. This maps 80+ galleries of the 150 located in the East End that are participating in the Time Out/Arts Council England (ACE)-sponsored First Thursday series of late gallery openings on the first Thursday of every month.27 The reason for their inclusion is that, while London has very many public art galleries (see below), arguably it is the ability to sustain a large presence of commercial galleries that really distinguishes the art scene in cities such as London and New York, from smaller domestic comparators, such as Birmingham or Detroit.
Gallery, presents a difficulty that is shared in the data across the cities for which comparable data is available (Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai). Of course, the real difficulty lies in finding comparative data for New York which clearly has a very strong art scene because the concept of state-supported cultural provision does notreallyexist in the US.
Arts, design and cultural Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) Lastly, this section looks at the specialist arts, design and cultural HEIs across the cities. London can rightly lay claim to having some of the finest such institutions in the world: the Royal Colleges of Art and Music, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to name but three. Moreover, the number of 12 cited in table 5.2, while factually accurate, disguises the fact that there are actually many more specialist arts and design HE colleges in London, which have been amalgamated in some way. For instance, the creation of the University of the Arts London in 2004 brought six internationally renowned colleges such as St Central St Martins and London College of Fashion together, under one institution. Similarly, RADA is actually part of the In looking at the number of public art Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, which galleries in London, it firstly needs to be spans eight small, specialist conservatoirenoted that there may be some overlap level vocational training colleges across the in the statistics between the 92 public UK in dance, drama, music and circus. All galleries and the number of museums. Forinstance, the National Portrait Gallery, but two are located in London. The breadth both Tate Galleries and the National Gallery and depth of Londons arts and design HE institutions are not, therefore, best served are all considered national museums but by this indicator alone. are also art galleries. However, though the figure includes a likely degree of The number of students that study across double-counting, the numbers of publicly- these 12 institutions gives a much better supported galleries in London, such as approximation of the importance of this TheWhitechapel Gallery or The Serpentine resource to maintaining the innovation
For instance, in data collation for a study of the cultural sector in Hackney carried out by BOP in 2004/5, ExperiansNational Business Database failed to capture almost all of the 60+ art galleries that were listed in the now unavailable East End Art Map (BOP 2005). 27 For a full listings of the participating galleries, and other non-participating galleries in the East End, see www.firstthursdays.co.uk/
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and quality of Londons cultural sector. In200506, figures provided by the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) show that there were 50,130 students studying at these specialist universities and colleges. This total far outstrips that of all the other cities for which comparisons are available. Even though figures for the numbers
of students of specialist art, design and cultural HE institutions are not available for New York, there were 4,705 graduates of these courses in 2005/06. This means that it is likely that there will be no more than approximately 2025,000 students of these institutions at any one time, around half the number for London.
5.4 Audio-visual
Film The main public (as opposed to domestic) consumer infrastructure for the audiovisual sector is cinemas. London is the undisputed centre of the UKs film industry and the largest production base in Europe, but how does it fare in terms of cinema exhibition? In comparison with the other four cities, it ranks joint second with Tokyo in terms of the simple number of cinemas. New York, however, has more than twice the numbers of cinemas than London or any other of the comparator cities. Of course, the basic number of cinemas in a city does not tell the whole story as much depends on the number of screens and the capacity of seats for each screen. Again, within the resources available to the project, it has not been possible to identify the aggregate like-for-like capacity of all cinemas across the five cities. But data is available for three of the cities on the total number of screens. What this shows is a higher number of screens per cinema in London than in both Paris and particularly Tokyo; which is quite dramatic when scaled against population, as in table 5.3 below.
Table 5.3 Cinema infrastructure and output in the five comparator cities
Indicator Number of cinemas Number of cinema screens Number of cinema screens per million population Number of film releases per year (1) Number of film festivals London 105 516 70 505 62 New York 264 N/A N/A 607 128 Paris 88 376 30 N/A 43 Shanghai 49 N/A N/A 169 1 Tokyo 105 211 20 821 27
(1) London figure is a national figure for UK and Republic of Ireland. Similarly New York and Tokyo figures are for USA and Japan Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008)
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In turn, this is likely to reflect a greater proportion of multiplexes in the cinema infrastructure of London in comparison with the other cities. In 2003, multiplexes already accounted for 45% of all London cinemas and 77% of its screens.28 However, the greater number of screens at multiplex cinemas does not necessarily mean a greater range of film programming (see below). Another structural issue is the ownership of distribution and exhibition of film. In the UK there is massive concentration in cinema ownership. The remaining independent cinemas in London mean that it does better in terms of diversity than the rest of the country. But this diversity is dependent upon a fragile funding structure. Operators of independent and arthouse cinemas in central London have to contend with the most expensive property costs in the UK29, and draw on a patchwork of public sector funding from EU, national, regional and local sources.
data in table 5.3 is based on the number of films gaining theatrical release nationally. Indeed, for London, the data actually relates to the whole of the UK and the Republic of Ireland (RoI). What can be said about the output of Londons cinemas is that it is highly likely that they showed all of the 505 films that were released in the UK and RoI in 2006, which would not be the case in most other cities in the country. But the UK and RoI compares relatively poorly across the other countries in terms of the number of films released, though it is the smallest territory of those covered. Secondly, as with the number of cinemas, the range of programming produced by cinemas in London varies significantly.
Inner London, with its mix of art house, independent, repertory and multiplex provision, exhibits a greater number and variety of films than outer London, in which provision is almost exclusively multiplex. The 2003 London Assembly cinema report Londons cinemas are also strongly evidenced this through a weekly snapshot concentrated in Inner London, which is in August, which showed that a hundred home to more than a third of all cinemas, different films were exhibited in the West and the West End in particular. A 2003 End, compared to fewer than 70 in the rest London Assembly report examining cinema of the London (which had three times more provision in the capital described cinema cinema screens at the time). Instead, 75% provision in outer London as mixed at best, of all screenings outside the West End were pointing out the total lack of any cinema accounted for by just six films. Similarly, in two London boroughs (Lewisham and only 8% of screenings outside the West Waltham Forest), and below national End in a week were in a foreign language average levels of provision in several more compared to a quarter of all screenings (London Assembly 2003). in the West End (London Assembly 2003). Tracking down figures for the number of Wary of precisely this kind of effect on films released at cinemas in the individual programming, the city government in Paris cities proved futile. As film distribution passed planning legislation to restrict the deals are assigned by territory, it is very growth of multiplex cinemas in the 1990s, difficult to obtain figures that relate to the to protect French film programming and sub-national level. For this reason, all the smaller cinemas.
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London Assembly (2003). An astronomical rent increase, for instance, was the reason given by City Screen, the owners of The Other Cinema just off Leicester Square in Londons West End, when its closure was announced in 2005.
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Table 5.2 also provides data on the number of film festivals held annually in each city. To the lay person, it is perhaps surprising that there is more than one film festival in all but one city (Shanghai), as each city is known for one large film festival that bears the citys name, such as the Times BFI London Film Festival. However, as the large numbers for Tokyo, London and, particularly, New York demonstrate, these cities are the home of many more smaller and niche film festivals, that help to develop and sustain audiences for a much wider range of film programming than is typically offered on theatrical release throughout the rest of the year. Interestingly, despite covering arguably many of the worlds greatest cities, the main international film festivals that play a significant role in market making in the film industry ie where the festival jury prizes can significantly boost a films chances at the box office and where films are bought and sold take place elsewhere, such as Cannes, Berlin or Sundance. The film festivals in the cities in the research are, instead, more audience-driven. So, while there are film festivals driven by film genre and format (e.g. animation, short films, documentary), many reflect and represent the diverse communities that live in these world cities. This is either explicit, as with the International Black Film Festival and the Bosnian Herzegovinian Film Festival held in New York, Londons Latin American and Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals, or the Festival of Israeli Cinema and TokyoZone Festival in Paris; or implicit, through neighbourhood-based festivals, such as Londons Made in Camden and East End Festivals, or the Williamsburg Brooklyn and Lower East Side Festivals.
Internet infrastructure Notwithstanding the continued importance of the, by now, century-old cinema infrastructure of cities, digital Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly transforming the way that culture is produced, distributed and consumed. At the cutting edge of these transformations is audio-visual content: recorded music, computer and video games, film and TV programming. Therefore a vital element of a citys cultural infrastructure is the broadband internet infrastructure that allows its residents and visitors to access, participate and produce online, digital culture. But measuring this new form of cultural infrastructure at the city level is difficult as most data collection is driven by the demands of national telecommunication regulation and policy. Thus for each of the cities, it is possible to assemble data for the host country though for differing time periods but data is not always available at city level. For instance, Ofcoms 2007 Communications Market Report outlines that by March 2006, 53% of all UK households had broadband internet access. It is not unreasonable to suggest that the London figure may be higher than this. The large domestic and business base of metropolitan areas makes them hotspots of demand for telecommunications companies. This means that within a competitive, liberalised telecommunications market advanced communications infrastructure and services are rolled out in these areas first. The cost of doing so is cheaper per subscriber (due to density) and demand is greatest (due both to sheer volume but also sophistication of demand), when combined with other more sparsely populated settlements.
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Statistics available for other cities indicate that broadband adoption is currently between slightly more than a third and slightly less than half of all households across the overall grouping. For instance, in Tokyo and a number of other governmentdesignated cities, 47% of all households had broadband internet access in 200630 and the proportion for Shanghai was 36% in the same year.31 Figures for France and the US for the same year of 2006 were published in Ofcoms 2006 Communications Market Report. At this time, take-up of broadband by households stood at 39% in France and 38% in the US. These earlier figures show the importance of the exact date of the statistics. In 2006, Ofcom reported UK broadband take-up at only 39% it therefore increased by a full 14 percentage points within the space of one year.
Of course, simply the number of connections is not the only broadband infrastructure consideration that needs to be taken into account: the speed of connections is also important. In relation to the speed of connection, as well as the proportion of households that have access to high speed internet, it is clear although perhaps surprising that the leading cities in the world fall outside of the group considered in this research. Box 5.1 illustrates the lead that Seoul and South Korea have taken in broadband infrastructure, and what this means for cultural consumption and production.
Box 5.1: South Korea leads the way in digital culture

Although it is not the most (physically) wired city in the world Seoul in South Korea does have the best take-up and usage of broadband, and it has the fastest. While Londoners struggle to get the advertised up to 8Mb/s superfast connections (most fall below 1Mb/s); the average connection speed in Seoul is 3Mb/s, and the current infrastructure investment upgrade will deliver 100Mb/s by 2012. South Koreas investment in broadband infrastructure began in 1995. Not only has it achieved close to 90% take-up, but it has also stimulated a cutting edge hardware and content industry. Cyworld is a little like MySpace and Facebook, although it predates it and outperforms both; critically it has a regular user base of 90% of the 2030 year-olds in South Korea. Cyworld issues $0.3m of its own currency each day for use by its users. South Korea also leads the way in the online gaming industry and next generation media and visual arts applications. The depth of skills and expertise that have been built up through these activities is now having a pull-through effect in other sectors, with South Korea taking TV production from Japan, and animation from Hollywood. It is emblematic that The Simpsons is now produced in South Korea.
References: ITU (2003) Broadband Korea (www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/korea/material/CS_KOR.pdf) C.Taylor (2006) The future is in S.Korea, Business 2.0 Magazine, (http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/08/technology/business2_futureboy0608/index.htm)
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5.5 Books and press

London has historically been the centre of both the UKs publishing and printing industries. While the last decade has seen the capitals printing industries shrink in the face of strong international competition, technological change and a move towards greater proximity to the motorway network, London has consolidated its position as the publishing centre of the UK (BOP 2004). Book publishing and selling in particular has always been rooted in the capital. Hatchards in Piccadilly is the UKs oldest surviving bookshop, and some of Londons neighbourhoods and areas are synonymous with the book trade, whether this is the second-hand bookshops clustered on and around Charing Cross Road, or Bloomsburys association with book publishing. Traditional book retailing, of course, is one of the service activities that has faced the greatest competitive threat from online book stores, such as Amazon. The last decade has therefore seen major transformations in the UKs book retailing landscape. In addition to online competitors, this has also included the entry of supermarkets into book selling, offering deep discounts to consumers but only across a very limited number of titles and major industry consolidation through merger and acquisition. Indeed, many book consumers and those working in the industry were concerned enough at the recent takeover of the Ottakars chain by Waterstones to successfully lobby the Office of Fair Trading to refer the merger to the Competition Commission, although it was eventually given the green light.32 In addition to knowing what (if any) effect, consolidation and online competition is having on the number of bookshops, arguably the more pertinent question is what effect this might be having on the range and number of titles that are made available to consumers. Given the continuingly competitive environment in which dedicated bookshops operate, it is perhaps heartening to see that there remain so many on the streets of London, 927 to be precise. This figure is approaching twice as many as in New York and more than three times the number in Shanghai, though slightly less than Paris. Figures for bookshops in Tokyo have not been included as in Japan, books are predominantly sold through shops that also sell stationery, as opposed to specialist bookshops, and there are many thousands of these combined stationery/bookshops (6,409).33 The discrepancy between London, Paris and New York is so great that it would be a useful area for further research.
Table 5.4 Bookshops in the five comparator cities

Indicator Number of book shops Number of rare & second-hand bookshops Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008) London 927 149 New York 498 100 Paris 1,076 N/A Shanghai 300 148 Tokyo N/A N/A
For more information, see The Guardian (2005) Book buyers force inquiry into takeover of Ottakars, 7/12/05, at http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1660608,00.html 33 Japanese Statistics Bureau (2004).
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All the cities for which we have data are centres for the rare, second-hand and antiquarian book selling. This does, however, prompt the question as to how much longer can we assume that this
specialised activity will continue to take place right in the centre of these world cities (e.g. in Charing Cross Road), where property price pressures are greatest.
5.6 Cultural vitality and diversity

The new leisure/cultural infrastructure The Mayor of Londons London Plan acknowledges the contribution that the capitals night-time economy makes to Londons world city status. Urban culture needs to be constantly renewed if it is to maintain vibrancy and energy. One place that this process happens is in the informal spaces attached to bars and cafes. Although they have long been venues, or had venues For cultural infrastructure, we have focused attached, the true mixed-use, informal bar is a crucial asset. For the bar owner, on two different areas: the risk is minimal as takings are related to 1. the new leisure infrastructure (Lovatt drinks sales. Moreover, audiences may be and OConnor 1995) or the night-time encouraged to try something new because economy as it is more regularly referred they are already there. Here experimental to bars, cafes, pubs and clubs or super niche performance activities can 2. cultural festivals street festivals, carnivals, be seeded and grown. Many innovations in comedy, theatre and music have emerged and some consumer/industry trade fairs from such back rooms. In Shoreditch, for (e.g. Frieze Art Fair, 100% Design) example, pubs were commonly converted Both of these areas seek to shed some light on how the citys spaces are animated, how into informal art galleries in the late 1990s. Such flexible spaces are the true incubators new combinations of cultural production and experience are produced and consumed. of urban culture. As the night-time economy indicators are Although obtaining appropriate in part determined by a societys attitude comparisons for the Asian cities was towards alcohol, it is important to include not possible for nightclubs, discos and other indicators to control for cultural dancehalls, of the Western cities, London differences towards alcohol. has marginally more than both New York and Paris. Bars and pubs are another matter however, with Tokyo having more than twice as many as any other city. But a different story emerges when scaled to population: Paris has more bars per 1,000 population than any other city, by a considerable margin. London is often praised as much for the dynamism of its street culture as much as it is for its formal cultural provision. Yet finding quantitative indicators to try and capture this vibrancy and buzz is difficult. Little work has been undertaken internationally on this, and what does exist, has tended to focus more on diversity indicators of a citys population (e.g. Richard Floridas work).
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Festivals Festivals are big business. Although there are no definitive numbers, every year seems to bring a new clutch of festivals to the summer scene, while established festivals go from strength to strength. Under the general rubric of festivals fall international cultural events such as LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), citywide celebrations like Thamesfest or the Notting Hill Carnival and literally thousands
of small community, neighbourhood and even street festivals celebrating places or communities, art forms and historical events. The London borough of Southwark alone receives around 250 requests a year to stage festivals or outdoor events, and local authorities themselves are keen promoters of festivals as well as regulators, funders and suppliers.
Table 5.5 Cultural vitality and diversity infrastructure and output in the five comparator cities
Indicator Number of nightclubs, discos and dance halls Number of bars Number of bars per 1,000 population Number of festivals Number of international newspapers available across public library service Number of international HE students studying in city (1) Number of international HE students studying in city as % of all HE students (2) London 306 3,117 0.41 200 39 85,718 New York 279 1,800 0.22 81 49 64,253 Paris 277 2,618 1.22 40 20 50,158 Shanghai N/A 2,996 0.17 22 N/A 26,190 Tokyo N/A 9,476 0.75 N/A 21 40,316
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(1) Figures for New York relate to the New York Metropolitan Area (2) Figures for New York calculated for the New York Metropolitan Area. Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008)
Tracking the numbers of small, community festivals is, however, very difficult. Therefore, the number in table 5.5 is provided by Visit London, and refers only to the capitals larger cultural festivals, carnivals, and consumer/industry trade fairs. This pattern and range of large, often well-funded events, mixed with a much larger undergrowth of community and neighbourhood events is likely to be repeated in other cities, such as New York, that are home to a wide range of diverse communities. Thus, even though the figures in table 5.5 do not do justice to the absolute numbers of festivals, they do present a meaningful comparative picture of provision.
The importance of festivals as a cultural form derives in part from the fact that they involve groups and communities often quite marginalised from other cultural participation not only as attendees, but also as performers and organisers. Notting Hill is a famed example in this respect. But other events, such as the Baishakhi Mela or the Latin American Carnaval Del Pueblo in south London, also involve hundreds of community groups, many of whom exist largely to create these annual celebrations. Moreover, another driver is the cultural diasporas whose home is London; these festivals and carnivals are an international business with expertise and designs flowing between carnivals across the world.
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Cultural diversity
Box 5.2: The cultural infrastructure of Londons diverse communities

Collecting data on the arts and cultural organisations that support and promote Londons diverse communities is difficult. The best available data unearthed through the research is that compiled by Global London, a website dedicated to almost everything ethnic and cultural within the multilingual capital. The site is produced in co-operation with: the Corporation of London, SOAS Language Centre, London First Centre and University of Westminster. Although the site does encompass details of 140 organisations covering 39different ethnic, linguistic, nationality and faith groups, it is clear that this is by no means exhaustive. For instance, the list is missing Talawa, one of Britains foremost blackled theatre companies, and besides individual examples of organisations, it does not cover many important community centres that operate as cultural venues, such as Halkevi, a Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre in Stoke Newington.
By ethnic, linguistic, nationality African Afro American Arab Argentinian Asian Balinesian Basque Bengali Black Brazilian British Buddhist Caribbean Celtic Christian Eastern English European No. 2 1 1 2 1 17 1 1 2 9 2 11 1 2 1 1 1 10 6 % of all 3.9% 2.0% 2.0% 3.9% 2.0% 33.3% 2.0% 2.0% 3.9% 17.6% 3.9% 21.6% 2.0% 3.9% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 19.6% 11.8% By ethnic, linguistic, nationality Greek Indian Indonesian Iranian Irish Islamic Italian Japanese Jewish Latin American London Polish Portugese Romani Russian Scottish Spanish Sufi Welsh No. 1 7 1 2 2 19 4 3 7 2 1 2 1 2 6 3 2 1 2 % of all 2.0% 13.7% 2.0% 3.9% 3.9% 37.3% 7.8% 5.9% 13.7% 3.9% 2.0% 3.9% 2.0% 3.9% 11.8% 5.9% 3.9% 2.0% 3.9%
Source: Global London www.global-london.com/arts.htm (2008)
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Another factor that adds to the cultural vitality of a city is obviously the diversity of the population. As reported above, London is an amazingly diverse city whose residents that speak over 300 languages.34 Additionally, it is also home to a large, temporary and diverse population of students. For instance, there were 85,718 international students studying at Londons 41 HEIs in 20056, 22% of all HE students in the city (the highest proportion across all the cities). Only approximately 30% of
these students were from the EU. The rest are drawn from a long and diverse list of countries. This figure does not include a further 19,000 US students that take a part of their academic year in London, through study abroad programmes. Even New York, that has the same advantage of the English language as London, struggles to match this output; one that adds immeasurably to the vitality and ongoing forging of links and networks between London and the rest of the world.
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Box 5.3: A week in the cultural life of London

An analysis of the figures for one weeks Time Out35 listings magazine , gives an insightinto the array of cultural provision that London offers. One can choose from 111different plays, 190 different exhibitions, 157 different comedy events, 293 rock or pop performances, or 195 club nights in the course of a single week. What is also strikingis the amount of cultural provision provided free of charge not just publicly subsidised but also commercially sponsored there are free club nights, cabaret performances, classical music concerts and photography exhibitions, as well as a variety of cross-subsidised cultural offerings, mixing exhibitions and events with eatingor drinking, shopping or travelling on the Underground.
Number of live music performances (621, 17% free)

Classical, 92, 15% Opera, 12, 2%
Jazz, Latin & Improv, 131, 21%
Rock, Pop & Dance, 293, 47%
Folk, Blues & World, 93, 15%
Number of club nights, by day (231, 18% free)

25 20 15 10 5 0 Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Source: Time Out/BOP and Experian (2008). Night of the week House, Electro & Techno Techno, Indie, Rock, Retro & Pop Hip Hop, D&B, R&B, and Funk Freestyle & Global Beats Gay & Lesbian
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The research has attempted to measure how these different linguistic, ethnic, faith and national groups are represented within the cultural infrastructure of London and the other cities. While it has been possible to gather data on a large number of cultural organisations and venues that are dedicated to representing, supporting, promoting and producing the culture of Londons diverse communities (see box 5.2), it has not been possible for the other cities. While a large number of cultures, faith and nationalities are clearly represented within Londons cultural infrastructure, arguably the city still lacks diverse cultural institutions of the stature of, for instance, New Yorks Schomburg Center and Library for Research in Black Culture or the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Key output indicators that one would ideally want to analyse to establish the degree of cultural diversity and vitality of a culture would include, for instance, more data on its characteristics, such as its ethnic, linguistic, or genre background. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to obtain consistent and comparable data on these attributes, though box 5.2 does present breakdowns for music and clubbing in London in terms of genre. It was also possible to obtain data on the number of international newspapers across the public library service. As table 5.4 shows perhaps unsurprisingly, it is in the two most diverse and cosmopolitan of the cities that the most diverse library output is found. London and New Yorks public libraries services offer 39 and 49 different international newspapers respectively.
5.7 Summary
As noted in the introduction to this section, the interplay of old and new cultures are often the site of invention and creativity. More perhaps by luck than design, London has a rapid turnover of activities and venues and a mix of old, established performance space and new and innovative ones. As always, a critical mass effects matters: in such cities one may find an audience for almost anything. Avibrant city needs old and new, established and traditional, and it needs audiences who will try out things, developing feedback and critique. This leads to true artistic development. Moreover, the co-existence of the established and traditional, cheek-by-jowl with the new and experimental, itself creates an addition cultural frisson that has the power to attract audiences to particular events, or to the city in general. This supply section also highlights one of the major difficulties in conducting a study of this kind. Much of the most important data, of the type that enables a real assessment of the character and nature of cultural production such as its genre, language-origin or quality/innovativeness is either not available or available only for commercial purposes. It is difficult, therefore, to build-up a detailed and long term picture of Londons cultural output, and importantly, how this is changing over time. But some of the data that is available such as the data on theatrical and musical performances, on cultural and international students demonstrates again that Londons mix of traditional and youth cultures is a vital element of its vibrancy contributing to its ability to attract tourists, visitors and students from across the world. But it also shows some of the disparities that exist within London in terms of the uneven distribution of cultural production and sites for consumption which is the subject of the next section.
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Section 6 Demand: Consumption
6.1 Introduction The wider national and international trends for increasing consumption of culture and recreation outlined in section 3 is aboon for London. These trends are magnified in the capital and other world cities.
Londoners have higher disposable income than elsewhere in the UK, and the citys population is also more educated, more diverse and younger. These sociodemographics combine to create a critical mass of demanding consumers relatively rich in cultural as well as economic capital, and with generally more time to devote to these activities (as they are commonly have few dependants at this life stage) which drives innovation in cultural production. This final section measures the consumption of cultural products and services through sales data, visitor numbers, time use, and participation rates.
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6.2 Context: participation

In addition to rising levels of expenditure devoted to leisure and culture, the amount of time that people spend engaged in these activities has risen substantially over the last 30 years. In fact, in the UK and most other developed or emerging countries, national surveys of time use show that engaging with audio-visual media (watching TV/videos/DVD, listening to radio and music) is the activity that takes up the largest share of peoples time outside of sleeping and working. In the UK, this means that, on average, people aged 16 and over spent 157 minutes per day consuming audio-visual media in 2005. and lowest numbers of minutes per day. The distinction between the Western and Asian cities is also noticeable with regard to the time spent reading per day. The average figures for the number of minutes per day spent reading for both Tokyo and Shanghai are more than twice the numbers for Paris, London and New York.
Perhaps surprisingly given, in particular, Japanese societys generally enthusiastic adoption of technology, the trends for the average time spent online per user per month are reversed. According to the 2007 Comscore World Metrix Study of internet usage from which the statistics As table 6.1 demonstrates, people in each in this section are drawn people in of the cities36 spend much of their free time Tokyo,together with Shanghai, spend the engaging with audio-visual media and least amount of time per month online largely at home, or else while travelling (19hours). Londoners spent the longest (in the case of radio and music). While online per month, both as measured across the figures for London and New York are the five cities, but also, as the UK regulator broadly comparable, differences do exist in Ofcom reported, when benchmarked across relation to the Asian cities included in the all the other countries included in the research, which registered both the highest Comscore study.
Table 6.1 Time use and participation rates in selected cultural activities in the five comparator cities
Indicator Average minutes per day spent engaging with AV media (e.g. TV, radio and music) (1) Average time per day spent reading (minutes) (2) Average time spent online per month per user (hours) (3) Percentage of working age population who have visited a gallery or museum at least once in the past year (4) London New York 157 24 34 42% 141 20 31 42% Paris Shanghai N/A 23 26 39% 175 48 19 N/A Tokyo 137 53 19 28%
(1) Figures quoted for London are for Great Britain, and for the USA for New York (2) All figures for the cities are national figures for Great Britain, USA, France, China and Japan (3) All figures for the cities are national figures for Great Britain, USA, France, China and Japan (4) Figure for Paris is a national figures for France Source: BOP/Experian (2008)
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Despite spending the bulk of their time sleeping, working and consuming audiovisual media products, the residents of the five cities do find time to get out and attend and participate in other forms of culture. However, as table 6.2 shows, even in London and New York the leading citieson this measure the numbers of
people that visit a museum or gallery evenonce a year are still some way below 50% of the adult working age population. And if the pattern is the same in the other cities, visiting a gallery or museum once a year is actually one of the more regular cultural activities (see box 6.1 Taking Part inCulture).
Box 6.1: Taking Part in Culture

The DCMS Taking Part Survey collects data about engagement in culture, leisure and sport. It is based on over 28,000 face-to-face interviews with adults aged 16+ in England. The headline indicator that is reported is the percentage of adults aged 16+ that have attended a particular form of cultural provision at least once within the last year. This is presented in chart 6.1. Even though this indicator sets the bar quite low as a measure of engagement, the proportion of adults that do attend at least once a year is still under 25% for all but four individual cultural activities: historic environment, cinema, libraries, and museums/ galleries. Further, engagement falls rapidly once the frequency of attendance is increased: while 42% of the adult population in England attended a museum or gallery at least once in the last year, only 8% of this number attended once a month or more. The limited regional breakdowns offered by Taking Part show some differences in attendance patterns for individual domains, but no overall distinctively London trend emerges. Londoners are more likely to attend once a year or more at a museum or gallery (51%, +9 % points) and a library (53%, +5 % points), but less likely (64%, -6 % points) to attend the historic environment. In other domains, such as the arts or archives, attendance patterns as measured using this indicator are the same as in England.
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Chart 6.1: time spent on cultural activities

Contemporary dance Other live dance event Ballet Opera or operetta Books or writing event Jazz performance Archives Classical music Cultural form Street arts Craf t exhibition Carnival Exhibition of art, photography or sculpture Theatre: play or drama Other theatre (exc. plays or drama) Live music event (exc. jazz or classical) Museum/Gallery Library Cinema (1) Overall Arts Historic environment 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 % Attending at least once a year in England (2005/06) Source: DCMS (2007). (1) Cinema attendance figure from the UK Film Council (2007) UKFC Statistical Yearbook.
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6.3 Consumption
Cultural heritage Despite the importance of having accurate data on visitor numbers, it is actually hard to come by information for museums and galleries, particularly data that is comparable. In part, this arises through differences in: the access and charging policies of institutions collections and programming institutional background Firstly, some institutions as with all museums in England do not charge admission fees to access their permanent collections, so there is no easily available box office data on which to base figures. Others, of course, do levy admission fees, such as the majority of museums and galleries in all the other comparative cities. Still more have differential charging; access to permanent collections may be free or relatively cheap, with premium charges reserved for temporary exhibitions. Finally in Western countries, the mix of governance arrangements for museums and galleries national public sector, local municipal public sector, private sector, voluntary and community sector can mean that it is hard to collectivise and aggregate data collection. Indeed, such is the scarcity and number of issues that arise in collecting comparative visitor numbers for museums and galleries, that The Independent newspaper, in its recent World Capitals Index, dropped the indicator altogether, despite wanting to include it.37 Certainly, obtaining accurate data on total visitor numbers across the cities has not been possible, except for London. The visitor numbers to the top five most visited institutions in each city has thus been chosen as the best possible proxy for the purposes of comparison. The aggregate number of visitors to Londons museums stood at 39.63m in 200304.38 However, even this figure is only based on data for 141 of Londons museums. It is clear from table 6.2 that the majority of these almost 40m visits are to a small number of the larger, predominantly national, museums. In 2005, combined visitor numbers to Tate Modern, the British Museum, National Gallery, National History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) stood at 20.4m. This is commensurate with visitor numbers to the top five most visited museums and galleries in Paris; both cities have visitor numbers far in excess of the figures for the other comparator cities.
The Independents World Capital Index claims to be the most exhaustive comparison ever compiled of the worlds great cities, although it appears to be a compilation of the many city indexes and league tables that have sprung up over the last decade (such as the Mercer Consulting World-wide Quality of Life Survey, the Anholt-GMI City Brand Index, the Mastercard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index, and so on). The Independents Index, in which London incidentally comes top, employs a somewhat eclectic combination of just 14 indicators, including miles of underground track, number of symphony orchestras, whether a city has held the Olympics, and how many times a city appears in the newspapers own Travel section. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3276224.ece 38 The figures are compiled from the Museums Association Yearbook. Inclusion in the statistics therefore depends on whether the museum is a member of the Association (though all the major museums are MA members). The data was first published in ALM Londons (2004) report, Londons Culture Equation.
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Table 6.2 Consumption of cultural heritage in the five comparator cities

Indicator Total visits to top five museums and galleries (millions peryear) Visits to top five museums and galleries per capita per year Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008) London 20.4 2.7 New York 8.3 1.0 Paris 20.2 1.8 Shanghai N/A N/A Tokyo 6.7 0.5
Again, while the figure for New York may seem surprisingly low, it needs to be remembered that New York as with Shanghai does not enjoy the same near monopoly over the national museums and collections that London and Paris do. For instance, New York only has three of the top 10 most visited museums and galleries in the US (the Met, MoMA, the Guggenheim), according to the 2006 Survey of Museum Financial Information conducted by the American Association of Museums (AAM).
world were based in Japan (three in Tokyo). Key to the success of the Tokyo/Japanese exhibitions has been huge, often newly built exhibitions spaces, combined with few worries about ruining the visitor experience through overcrowding whereas British museums set strict limits for the maximum number of people that are allowed into exhibitions at any one time.39
Visitor numbers to Tokyos museums therefore seem low, given the enthusiasm for large blockbuster exhibitions. Two The real conundrum regarding the visitor possible explanations seem likely. Firstly, figures for museums and galleries is not even the exhibitions that top the lists of New York, but Tokyo. The arts trade paper total visitor numbers still generally account and now website The Art Newspaper has for less than one million visitors, with most been publishing attendance figures for museums attracting far less between international art exhibitions for the last 11 250,000 and 500,000 visitors.40 Permanent years, based on recorded daily figures. For collections, therefore, seem key to attracting the last three years, exhibitions in Tokyo and sustaining a large population of visitors have recorded the highest daily figures. In all year round. Relatedly, a number of Tokyos their 11th Annual Survey that was published newer national museums and galleries in 2007, 6,446 daily visitors were recorded have instead a much greater emphasis on for the exhibition: The Price Collection: temporary exhibitions. So, at 14,000 square Jakuchu and the Age of Imagination, at the meters, although Tokyos new National Art Tokyo National Museum. The second most Center has the largest exhibition space of visited exhibition was also based in Tokyo. any gallery or museum in Japan, it has no This repeated the 2006 trend in which half permanent collection at all. of the top 10 most visited exhibitions in the
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Libraries Public library figures are, on the other hand, more widely reported than visitor numbers to museums and galleries, though still plagued with difficulties in terms of comparisons. In particular, some countries and cities prefer to report number of visits, while others report number of registered users (though even here there is a distinction between active borrowers versus simply registered users). As the statistics for the five comparative cities are all measuring different elements of the consumption of library services, they have been omitted from the tables, but will be discussed briefly below.
Theatre Looking at the consumption of theatre across the cities, a familiar pattern emerges. London and New Yorks predominantly commercial theatre scenes are broadly comparable, with a difference of only 100,000 admissions separating them. As noted previously, although London has a slight edge in terms of the number of consumers, these are spread across a greater number of venues. As table 6.3 shows, the total value of theatre admissions, in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars, gives Broadway the edge when compared with Londons theatreland. This is perhaps unsurprising given the lack of public investment in theatre in New York. Ticket receipts therefore play a correspondingly According to the CIPFA (2006) Public Library larger role in financing theatre in New York Statistics, there were 55.5m visits to public than in the other cities. libraries in London. However, while this figure would represent 7.4 visits per capita Although London appears to generate less per year if simply divided by population, in revenue from theatre admissions than Tokyo, reality this large number of visits is actually it should be noted that the figures for Tokyo generated by a much smaller numbers of and Shanghai unavoidably include revenues active borrowers 1.8m, or approximately for admissions to live music events. Even one in every four Londoners. This figure also here, when the value of theatre sales is scaled compares unfavourably with the number against population, London has the second of library users in New York State (11.9m), highest per capita figure at $89 PPP. The real although this is a much bigger geographical surprise is the figures for Paris, which are very area, with a population two and a half low. Further research would be necessary to times the size of Greater London, and no understand why this might be, as the figures distinction is made between active or for Paris were sourced from the Ministre de dormant users. la Culture et de la Communication, and have been checked again for accuracy.
Table 6.3 Consumption of theatre in the five comparator cities

Indicator Total admissions at major theatres (million per year) Admissions at major theatres per capita per year Total value of theatre ticket sales at major theatres per year ($m PPP) (1) Total value of theatre ticket sales at major theatres per capita per year ($ PPP) (1) (1) Figures for Shanghai and Tokyo include music Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008) London 12.4 1.6 668 $89.00 New York 12.3 1.5 915 $111.40 Paris 3.4 0.3 126 $13.56 Shanghai 7.2 0.4 26 $4.60 Tokyo N/A N/A 719 $57.20
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Live music There are no comparable figures for the numbers of live music consumers across the cities, nor alas for the value of this potentially vast market. Some figures do exist for London, though they are by now very out of date. In a study published in 2001 in the academic journal Cultural Trends, the value of ticket sales for live music was estimated at 381m, already slightly more than the equivalent figure for the recorded music market in London (345m).41 As live music has been the majorgrowth area of the music industry over the last five years, it is not unreasonable to suggest that the value of concert ticket sales is now likely to be largerthan in 2001 (and not simply due to the effects of inflation).42 As for the numbers of consumers, the high number of performances in London attests to the enduring appeal of live music in the capital. While it has not been possible to quantify this audience across the vast range of venues in which live music is
In a study published in 2001 in the academic journal Cultural Trends, the value of ticket sales for live music was estimated at 381m.
performed in London, at the very top end, London is now home to two of the top five most popular music/entertainment venues in the world: the O2 Arena and Wembley Arena. No other city in the world has more than one venue in the top 10. According to concert database Pollstars annual listings of venue ticket sales, the O2 Arena sold 1.2m tickets in its first six months of opening. Even only half a year of operations was enough to make the O2 the third most popular venue in the world in 2007, approximately 11,000 sales behind Madison Square Gardens and 36,000 behind the Manchester Evening News Arena. In 2008, with a full year of ticket sales, it is widely predicted that the O2 Arena will become the worlds most popular live music venue.43
Laing, York, and Harding, (2001). Of course, this is not the case with recorded music, for which total revenues (if not always volume sales) have been in decline in most mature international markets for the last three years, due to competition from digital downloads (both legal and illegal), and lower pricing per unit. The London market figures of 345m in 2002 and 309m in 2007 would seem to bear out this wider trend in the value of recorded music sales. 43 Wembley Arena sold 901,778 tickets in 2007, placing it fourth on the list. For the breakdown of ticket sales for the top 10 most popular venues in the world, see the Manchester Evening News coverage of the Pollstar figures in M.E.N. arena is top, at: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1030777_men_arena_is_top
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Audio-visual Despite having less than half as many cinemas as New York, the total audience for film in London is comparable to that in the Big Apple. In 2006, according to the UK Film Councils Statistical Yearbook, there were 39.8m admissions to cinemas in London 25% of all admissions at the UKs box office (despite having only 12% of the population). Indeed, when scaled against population, as in table 6.4, this represents 5.3 admissions per capita over the year more than twice the number for Paris, which is known as a cinephile city and again, slightly more than in New York.
event that once again shows Londoners appetite for film. However, while admissions at the London Film Festival are greater than in both New York and Paris, Shanghai tops the list with 200,000 admissions to its one and only Film Festival in 2004.
Although the value of cinema admissions in the West End alone are greater than for the whole of Scotland,44 as with theatre, the total value of consumer demand for film in London fares less well when measured as $PPP. In fact, London ranks fourth on this measure, which is rare throughout the research.45 The picture looks different again, however, when viewed as per capita value per year ($PPP). On this measure, Londoners spent Although Londons Times BFI Film Festival may not have the industry influence of other $25.35 PPP per person on cinema admission film festivals, it is clearly a genuinely popular fees in 2006, second only to New York.
Table 6.4 Consumption of audio-visual products and services in the five comparatorcities
Indicator Total cinema admissions (million per year) Cinema admissions per capita per year Number of admissions at main film festival (000) Total value of cinema ticket sales per year (m PPP) (1) Total value of cinema ticket sales per capita per year ($ PPP) (1) Total value of computer and video games sales per year ($m PPP) (2) Total value of all music CD sales per year ($m PPP) (3) Total value of all music CD sales per capita per year ($ PPP) London 39.8 5.3 115 190 $25.35 533 515 $68.61 New York 39.7 4.8 75 260 $31.66 578 715 $38.02 Paris 27.6 2.4 70 201 $17.64 N/A 223 $19.60 Shanghai 11.7 0.6 200 27 $1.51 N/A 27 $1.51 Tokyo 22.1 1.8 N/A 274 $21.77 767 392 $31.16
(1) Figures for London, New York and Shanghai are derived values estimated from national data (2) Figure for New York is for the New York Met Area, estimated from national data; Tokyo figure estimated from national data (3) Music figures for New York are for the New York Met Area, estimated from national data; Paris and Tokyo figures estimated from national data Source: Compiled by BOP/Experian (2008)
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London Assembly (2003). The absolute value of cinema admissions in London will be greater than given in these figures. This is because, in order to establish meaningful comparisons, the estimate of the value that each city accounts for of all cinema admissions in the five countries, has been calculated on the basis of the proportion of national income that each city generates. For London, this is 15%, but the actual proportion of UK ticket sales that London accounts for is likely to be closer to the 25% reported by Film London. However, as the actual values for the share of ticket sales is not known for the other cities, the share of national income has been used as a common methodology, on the understanding that this is equally as likely to underestimate the figures for New York and Shanghai as it is for London.
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Although computer and video games have been a fixture in many of our lives for four decades now, they are often ignored as part of our cultural environment. Nowhere is the error of this judgement more evident than in Japan. Fittingly, the value of consumer sales of computer and video games in Tokyo ($767m PPP) eclipses the comparative market value in both New York and London. Nevertheless, the 14.9m computer and video games sold in London in 2006 generated sales value of 319.8m, or23% of the UK market.46
In 2006, consumers purchased 61.9m books in London, accounting for 28% of the total UK market of 274.8m.
Books and press Unfortunately, it was not possible to provide comparative statistics on book sales for the comparator cities. Data for these cities related to the output of the publishing industries in the four countries, This domestic trend of London being home and not the consumer market. However, Neilsen Bookscan were able to provide key to more intensive consumers of audiovisual products and services than in the rest data for the research on Londons book of the UK is repeated once again in relation market. In 2006, consumers purchased 61.9m books in London, accounting for 28% to recorded music. In 2006, 33.7m albums of the total UK market of 274.8m. Similarly, and 2.9m singles were bought in London, the value of Londoners consumption accounting for 22% and 21% of respective of books in the same year amounted to sales in the UK that year. Translated into 507.9m, 30% of the total UK retail book monetary values, this adds up to 300.8m market of 1.7bn. Although Londons share and 8.4m, again, 21% of the total market of the consumer book market appears to value for albums and singles in the UK in be significantly greater than its share of 2006.47 Although the total market value is less than in New York, when scaled against the cinema, games and recorded music markets, this is due to the fact that the population, the annual per capita value geography used in the Neilsen figures is of consumption of the sales of recorded the London ISBA region. This is roughly music in London is $68.61, higher than all commensurate with the London television the other comparator cities. This mirrors region and is home to approximately 2.5m Londons predominance in the live music more people than Greater London. market, as illustrated in section 2.2.
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Cultural vitality and diversity Obtaining consumption data on cultural vitality and diversity across the cities proved very difficult. In particular, figures for the numbers of consumers for Londons combined new leisure/culture infrastructure bars, cafes and clubs etc. is very difficult. The only figures that could be found state that in 1997, the average clubbing audience in London over a weekend is approximately 500,000 people.48 The lack of data of this kind is a particular weakness given its relevance to a wide range of urban policies transport, planning, licensing, policing, housing as well as to cultural policy. Similarly, data on the numbers and market value of many of the cultural products discussed above (e.g. films, music), broken down by, for instance, linguistic origin, would be a useful direct indicator of the cultural diversity of consumption that take places within London. This data is unfortunately not readily available in any of the cities. The indicators used in table 6.5 instead offer other proxies for measuring the cultural vitality and diversity of a citys culture through consumption.
In London, this is of course Notting Hill. In New York it is Macys Thanksgiving Parade and in Shanghai, the opening of the International Tourism Festival (figures were not obtained for Paris and Tokyo). Though both very different events, Notting Hill and the Thanksgiving Parade attract similarly large numbers of participants (2m and 2.5mrespectively). The last indicator chosen to measure the cultural vitality and diversity of cultural consumption in cities is the number of international tourists that visit the five cities each year. International tourists add to the mix of consumers who judge, sort, filter and reproduce a variety of cultural experiences, ensuring that producers in London are kept alert by a demanding, educated and discerning audience.
As with the numbers of international students that flock to the city, London attracts more international tourists than any of the other cities in the research, and any other city in the world (according to the annual Euromonitor report from which all the city figures are drawn). The 15.6m international tourists that came to London in 2006 is more than twice the As the section on infrastructure and output number of the citys residents and more than 5m morethan visited Paris and New shows, London has a vast array of cultural 49 festivals of all shapes and sizes. Once again, York. Thisconstant throughput and flow measuring the total attendance at festivals of people ensures that London benefits fromnew ideas from across the globe, and carnivals, where attendance is largely but also that new ideas are created and not ticketed and free, is not easy. In order developed here, with both a local and to derive even some comparisons across globalaudience in mind. the city, the research concentrates on the estimated attendance/participants of the main carnival in each city.
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Table 6.5 Cultural vitality and diversity consumption indicators for the five comparator cities
Indicator Estimated attendance at main carnival/festival (million) Estimated attendance at main carnival/festival as % ofpopulation Number of international tourists per year (million) Number of tourists per year as % of population Source: BOP/Experian (2008) London 2.0 27% 15.6 208% New York 2.5 30% 8.1 99% Paris N/A N/A 9.7 85% Shanghai 0.5 2% 4.3 24% Tokyo N/A N/A 1.5 12%
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Appendix
Technical Appendix
A1 Definition of culture A2 Variables covered A3 Data collection and analysis A4 Estimation
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Appendix A Technical Appendix
A1 Definition of culture
The definition of culture in this report audio-visual and books and press. In theory, focuses on four main cultural domains: these domains encompass a wide variety of cultural heritage, visual and performing arts, activities, as can be seen in table A1.
Table A1 Cultural domain activities according to the DCMS DET, 2004

Visual and performing arts50 Fine arts (painting, sculpture) Crafts Art and antiques Architecture Design Designer fashion Theatre Live music Dance Festivals Carnival Circus Puppetry Audio-visual Television and radio Film and video Photography Advertising Recorded Music Interactive digital media (games, web, mobile, etc.) Cultural heritage Museums Libraries Archives Parks and botanical gardens Zoological gardens Historic houses and sites
Books and press Publishing Literature Printing
However, the data presented in this report covers a more limited set of activities than this, due principally to: the focus on the consumer/participants experience of culture across the cities which means that cultural activities that are principally business-to-business activities, such as architecture and design, are excluded from the research the pragmatics of data collection it is easier to collect data on some activities within these domains than others. For instance, statistics for theatre and film are much more readily available than for puppetry and photography
Therefore the data presented in the report pertains to a more limited set of cultural activities: cultural heritage: data mainly relates to museums and libraries; and the natural and built environment visual and performing arts: data mainly relates to theatre, live music and visual arts audio visual: data mainly relates to film, recorded music, internet use books and press: data mainly relates tobooks
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In addition, further data is presented on two cross cutting issues: cultural vitality: informal cultural production and consumption, together with other factors that add to the vibrancy (or buzz) of a city as experienced at street level
cultural diversity: cultural production and consumption by, and for, a diverse range of demographic groups Designer fashion is, arguably, a relatively restricted part of the fashion industry and falls outside the scope of this report because of time limitations.
A2 Variables covered
As noted earlier in the report, the research uses the approach to developing a Culture Satellite Account Framework that is outlined in the 2007 OECD report on the International Measurement of the Economic and Social Importance of Culture. Drawing heavily on the Canadian governments pioneering work in this area, the OECD
Layer II: Quantity/ Volume Supply The supply of consumer-facing cultural organisations, businesses and spaces (i.e. the cultural infrastructure of a city) The volume of output that this cultural infrastructure produces (i.e. the number of shows, exhibitions and so on) Demand Quantities of consumers for this output (i.e. number of admissions and visits) Attendance and participation rates (i.e. how consumption is distributed across a citys population) Layer I: Money Flows Demand Value in consumer demand for culture goods and services
report sets out a Culture Satellite Account Framework that consists of five layers. This research is concerned with some of the variables and indicators that constitute only the first two of these layers: Money Flows and Output: Quantity/Volume. For each layer in the Framework, there are both supply and demand dimensions.
For London, more detailed statistics, relating to the third layer of the OECD Framework Characterisation, e.g. the type of output that is produced are alsopresented. This is because understanding a citys culture requires more detailed and subtle indicators for
specific cultural markets. It has not been possible within the scope of the research to derive these Characterisation indicators for each of the four comparator cities with any consistency, but it would form a useful area for further research.
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A3 Data collection and analysis

Collecting and analysing data on culture For example, bookshops are contained across countries is notoriously difficult. within the SIC/ISIC class 5247 that also This is, for instance, why the OECD report includes newsagents and stationery is so important; it represents the first time shops (a far larger category than outside of individual regional blocs such as bookshops); museums are combined the EU that a common approach has been Some cultural activities (output and developed at governmental level for the consumption) take place in many collation and analysis of cultural statistics. non-cultural venues for instance live music is regularly performed in bars, In addition to the difficulties that arise clubs, sports stadia, theatre foyers and in analysing culture between countries churches. This can make tracking the that relate principally to differences in sector within hierarchical classification definitions of culture, how it is measured systems such as the SIC/ISIC difficult (e.g. what constitutes a visit), and when The approach taken to handling all these city-based measurement is also issues in the research is a pragmatic one. bedevilled by more practical difficulties: data on culture is still often not collected Where data is available from municipal and available at the city level. More or national statistical agencies, such fundamentally, for the variables that as the Shanghai Statistics Bureau, this report seeks to cover namely the these have been used. However, much character of the cultural infrastructure and of the data is derived from surveys, its output, and the size and value of the market intelligence data, and business associated consumer market statistics directories that are not provided by are not routinely available from national government statistical agencies. Instead, statistical agencies. This is due principally to it is sourced from a variety of other three factors. state-supported functions (e.g. city governments, tourism departments, Data on many variables, such as detailed film offices, national culture ministries, breakdowns of consumer spending on etc.); commercial data and market culture or the volume and character intelligence providers (e.g. business of output, are simply not collected by 51 directory publishers, market research national statistical agencies companies), trade associations and Where data is collected and available listings magazines. In order to improve through national business surveys, such the readability of the document, the as the UKs Annual Business Inquiry (ABI), information on data sources has largely the Standard Industrial Classification been omitted from the tables contained (SIC) or International Standard Industrial within the main body of the report. Classification (ISIC) they do not provide Afull listing of the data on indicators sufficient disaggregation to be able to foreach city is, however, contained extract data at a level that discretely in the Technical Appendix, including identifies activities or organisations. sourcereferences
L ack of national statistical data on the volume and characteristics of output (as opposed to its financial value), is true across service industries in general. Manufacturing, on the other hand, is far better covered through regular surveys such as the EUs Prodcom Survey. The UKs ONS piloted a version of Prodcom for the computer services industry in 2000, called Servcom but this has never been repeated to-date nor extended to cover any other service activities.
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The most recent available data for each city has been used, but this still means that there are a range of years covered in each of the indicators that are compared. In instances where the time period is critical, such as measuring the adoption of broadband internet across the cities, the lack of a consistent timeframe means that the data is not presented as a true and valid comparison, but discussed more discursively instead. For each of the indicators, data for only one year has been presented as it has not been possible to assemble accurate time series data within the confines of the current research project
In some of the cases where data is available only at a country level, citybased estimates have been derived. Themethodology for this estimation process is outlined in section A4 Finally, despite an intensive research effort, there are still some important indicators that are reported for which data is missing for one or other of the comparator cities. These have been kept to a minimum, with most indicators for which we have only partial comparisons excluded, through a filtering and selection process.
A4 Estimation
In some cases, data presented at citylevel has been derived from national data. There have been two approaches to scaling national data down to city-level: 1. Non-value indicators, such as the number of cultural institutions, have been scaled according to the percentage of the national population residing in the city area. For example, if New York accounts for x per cent of the total USA population and there are Y cinema screens in the USA, there is assumed to be x(Y) cinema screens in New York 2. Value indicators, such as the total value of music sales, have been scaled according to the percentage of national income that the city accounts for. Firstly, we calculate aggregate city income as the product of average income per capita in the city (cY) multiplied by the city population (cPOP). We then calculate aggregate national income by multiplying average income per capita in the country (nY) by the national population (nPOP). Dividing total city income by total national income produces the citys share of national income: (cY*cPOP)/(nY*nPOP). Finally, thisratio is applied to the national indicator (e.g. value of music sales) to produce the city indicator Value indicators have been presented in Purchasing Power Parity dollars ($PPP). Purchasing power parity takes account of both the nominal exchange rate and the relative prices of goods in different countries. The ratios used to convert local currencies in to $PPP are the latest World Bank (2004) estimates. In some cases we have also used simpler methods of estimation in order to derive a value, for instance, taking data for one week in a year and multiplying it by 52 to produce an annual figure. Full data tables are in Appendix B.
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Data tables with dates and sources
B1 Cultural infrastructure and output B2 Consumption and participation
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Section B D ata tables with dates and sources
B1 Cultural infrastructure and output

Indicator National museums City London New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo Figure Date 22 2005 16 2005 19 2006 6 2006 8 2005 Source DCMS Annual Report Alliance for the Arts Office du Tourisme Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 Statistical Abstract: Social Education by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) MLA London (2007) Facts and Figures/ Association of Independent Museums NY.com Office du Tourisme Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 MEXT MLA London (2007) Facts and Figures 2002 Economic Census Eurostat Shanghai Yearbook 2006 MEXT MLA London/Experian Refers to state owned large museums Notes
Other museums
London
162 2005
New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo Public libraries London New York City Inner Paris Shanghai Tokyo No. of public libraries per 100,000 population London
85 2007 138 2006 100 2006 71 2005 395 2005 255 2002 303 2001 248 2005 369 2005 5 2005
New York City Inner Paris Shanghai Tokyo No. of book loans by public libraries per year (million) London
3 2002 N/A 2001 1 2005 3 2005 38,410,000 2005/6
Economic Census/Experian Eurostat/Experian Shanghai Yearbook 2006/ Experian MEXT/Experian CIPFA (2006) Public Library Statistics The New York Public Library/ American Library Association Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 Statistical Abstract: Social Education by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
New York City Shanghai Tokyo
14,900,000 2007 10,869,200 2006 84,550,687 2006
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Section B Data tables with dates and sources
Indicator No of book loans by public libraries per capita per year
City London
Figure Date 5.1 2006
Source CIPFA Public Library Statistics/ Experian The New York Public Library/ American Library Association/ Experian Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007/Experian MEXT/Experian UNESCO UNESCO UNESCO UNESCO UNESCO Mayor of London (2002) Connecting with Londons nature: The Mayors Biodiversity Strategy New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Shanghai Culture Yearbook 2005 Tokyo Social Trends: The Life of Tokyo Residents in Statistics (2007) The Society of London Theatre The League of American Theatres and Producers Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 SOLT Box Office Data Report 2006
Notes
New York City
1.8 2007
Shanghai Tokyo UNESCO World Heritage Sites London New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo % of land mass accounted for by green space and water London
0.6 2006 6.7 2006 4 2007 1 2007 2 2007 0 2007 0 2007 66% 2002
New York City Shanghai Tokyo
5.3% 2007 36% 2004 36% 2006
Major Theatres
London New York Shanghai
55 2005 39 2007 19 2006 17,285 2006
No. of theatrical performances at major theatres per year
London
New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo
12,045 2007 15,598 2005 3,117 2006 8,281 2004
Time Out New York Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007) Ministry of Culture GEIDANKYO
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Indicator All theatres (inc Concert Halls)
Figure Date 215 2007 111 2007 158 2007 137 2006 132 2004 400 2007 151 2007 122 2006 148 2006 132 2004 9 2005 12 2007 5 2005 2 2006 32,292 2007
Source Experian National Business Database NY.com Mairie de Paris Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 GEIDANKYO Visit Britain NY.com Office du Tourisme Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 GEIDANKYO Visit London NY.com Mairie de Paris Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 Time Out London
Notes
Number of music venues
London New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo
Major Concert Halls
London New York City Paris Shanghai
No. of music performances per year
London
Scaled up from original weekly figure Scaled up from original weekly figure
New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo Art galleries public London Paris Shanghai Tokyo
22,204 2007 3,612 2005 11,736 2006 7,419 2005 92 2007 59 2007 6 2006 40 2005
Time Out New York Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007) Ministry of Culture GEIDANKYO Experian National Business Database Mairie de Paris (www.paris. fr/portail/Culture) Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 Statistical Abstract: Social Education by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
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Indicator Specialist cultural HE establishments
City London New York City Paris Shanghai
Figure Date 12 2007 7 2007 3 2007 15 2006 50,130 2005/6
Source HESA NYS Higher Education Services Corporation pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow Pages) China Education Online / Shanghai Morning Post HESA
Notes
No. of students of Specialist Arts & Design Institutions
London
Paris
1,440 2007
Figures procured from individual institution: Conservatoire National Suprieur dArt Dramatique, Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique, Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs Shanghai Morning Post Figures sourced from following 12 institutions: Tama Art University; Musashino Art University; Bunka Womens University; Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music; Musashino Academia Musicae; Kunitachi College of Music; Toho College of Music; Tokyo Polytechnic University; Tokyo Zokei University; Tokyo College of Music; Sugino Fashion College; Toho Gakuen School of Music. UKFC Statistical Yearbook (2006/7) Superpages.com Mairie de Paris Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 GEIDANKYO UKFC Statistical Yearbook (2006/7) Mairie de Paris GEIDANKYO
Shanghai Tokyo
10,000 2007 7,355 2007
Cinemas
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2006
264 2007 88 2007 49 2006 105 2004 516 2006 376 2006 211 2004
Cinema Screens
London Paris Tokyo
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Indicator No of cinema screens per million population
City London
Figure Date 70 2006
Source UKFC Statistical Yearbook (2006/7)/Experian Mairie de Paris/Experian GEIDANKYO/Experian UKFC Statistical Yearbook 2006/2007
Notes
Paris Tokyo No. of films given theatrical release in the country in ayear UK and Republic of Ireland
30 2006 20 2004 505 2006
USA Shanghai
607 2006 169 2005
Motion Pictures Association Shanghai United Circuit (countrys largest cinema exhibitor, 80% market share in Shanghai) Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan Film London filmfestivals.com filmfestivals.com Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Booksellers Association, Directory of Members 2007/08 Superpages.com pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow Pages) www.ddmap.com Experian National Business Database Superpages.com Kongfz.com (the biggest on-line rare and second-hand book market in Shanghai) Experian National Business Database Superpages.com pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow Pages)
Japan Film Festivals London New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo Bookshops London New York City Paris Shanghai Rare & 2nd Hand Bookshops London New York Shanghai
821 2006 62 2005 128 2007 43 2007 1 2006 27 2007 927 2007 498 2007 1,076 2007 300 2007 149 2007 100 2007 148 2007
Night Clubs, Discos and Dance Halls
London New York City Paris
306 2007 279 2007 277 2007
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Indicator Number of bars
Figure Date 3,117 2007 1,800 2007 2,618 2007 2,996 2007 9,476 2005
Source Yellow Pages newyorkontap.com pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow Pages) www.sh.gov.cn Tokyo Statistical Yearbook 2005: Education and Culture - Place of Amusement Yellow Pages newyorkontap.com pagesjaunes.fr (Yellow Pages) www.sh.gov.cn Tokyo Statistical Yearbook 2005: Education and Culture - Place of Amusement Visit London New York Street Fairs.com justfrance.org China Comfort Travel City of London Libraries: City Business Library
Notes
Bars per 1,000 population
0.41 2007 0.22 2007 1.22 2007 0.17 2007 0.75 2005
Festivals
London New York City Paris Shanghai
200 2005 81 2007 40 2007 22 2007 39 2006
No. of international London newspapers available across public library service Paris New York City Tokyo No. of international London students studying in city New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo
49 2007 20 2007 21 2007 85,718 2005/6
bpi.fr The New York Public Library The Tokyo Metropolitan Library Homepage Oxford Economics (2007) The economic impact of Londons international students, report for London Higher Open Doors Online Ministre de leducation nationale Shanghai Yearbook 2006 Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
64,253 2006
52 50,158 2003/4
26,190 2005 40,316 2007
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B2. Consumption and participation

Indicator Average minutes per day spent engaging with recorded AV media (TV, radio, music) City London Figure Date 157 2005 Source ONS (2006) The Time Use Survey 2005 Notes All city data for this indicator is estimated from national figures
New York Met Shanghai Tokyo
141 2006 175 2004 137 2006
American Time Use Survey China TV Market Report 20042005 Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities, Statistics Bureau, MIAC ONS (2006) The Time Use Survey 2005 American Time Use Survey Eurostat World Association of Newspaper Reading Survey 2008 (Forthcoming) Comscore World Metrix Study 2007 ibid ibid ibid ibid DCMS Taking Part Survey 2007 All city data for this indicator is estimated from national figures TV only Includes time reading newspapers or magazines All city data for this indicator is estimated from national figures
Average time per day spent reading (minutes)
London
24 2005
New York Met Paris Shanghai Tokyo Average time spent London online per month per user (hours) New York Met Paris Shanghai Tokyo Museums/Galleries attendance - % working age population attending once a year London
20 2006 23 2006 48 2007 53 2007 34.4 2007
31.4 2007 26.1 2007 19.3 2007 19.2 2007 42 2005/6
New York State Paris Tokyo
42 1997 39 2005 28 2006
1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007) Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities, Statistics Bureau, MIAC Estimated from the national figure
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Indicator No. of visits to Top 5 most visited Museums & galleries
City London
Figure Date 20,400,000 2005
Source DCMS Annual Report 2006
Notes
NYC
8,300,000 2005
American Association of Museums (2006) 2006 Museum Financial Information Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007) Tokyo Statistical Yearbook (2005) DCMS Annual Report 2006/ Experian American Association of Museums/Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication/Experian Tokyo Statistical Yearbook/ Experian SOLT
Paris Tokyo No of visits to top 5 museums & galleries per capita London
20,200,000 2005 6,714,077 2005 2.7 2005
NYC Paris Tokyo No. of admissions at major theatres per year London
1.0 2005 1.8 2005 0.5 2005 12,357,153 2006
New York City Paris Shanghai No of theatre admissions per capita per year London
12,310,000 2006/7 3,400,000 2005 7,151,000 2006 1.6 2006
The League of American Theatres and Producers Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007) Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007 SOLT/Experian
New York City
1.5 2006
The League of American Theatres and Producers/ Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication/Experian Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007/Experian
Paris Shanghai
0.3 2005 0.4 2006
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Indicator Total value of theatre ticket sales at major theatres per year - $m (PPP)
City London
Figure Date $668,004,681 2006
Source SOLT Box Office Data Report 2006/Experian
Notes
New York City Paris Shanghai
$914,999,972 2006 $125,550,000 2005 $26,333,333 2006
SOLT Box Office Data Report 2006/Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication/Experian Individual theatre receipts/ Experian The biggest performing arts company, Shanghai Grand Theater Arts Group, incl. Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Ballet, Shanghai Traditional Music Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House, Shanghai Culture Square
Tokyo Total value of ticket London sales at major theatres per capita, per year $ (PPP) New York City
$719,275,472 2004 $89 2006
Japan Council of Performers Organisations/Experian SOLT Box Office Data Report 2006/Experian
$111 2006
The League of American Theatres and Producers/ Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007)/ Experian Individual theatre receipts/ Experian The biggest performing arts company, Shanghai Grand Theater Arts Group, incl. Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Ballet, Shanghai Traditional Music Orchestra, Shanghai Opera House, Shanghai Culture Square
Paris
$14 2005
Shanghai
$5 2006
Tokyo
$57 2004
Japan Council of Performers Organisations/Experian
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Indicator No. of cinema admissions per year
Figure Date 39,800,000 2006 39,702,600 2006 27,600,000 2005 11,730,000 2006 22,110,783 2004 5.3 2006
Source UKFC Statistical Yearbook 2006/2007 Motion Picture Association Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007) Shanghai Statistical Yearbook2007 GEIDANKYO UKFC Statistical Yearbook (2006/2007)/Experian Motion Picture Association/ Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication/Experian Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007/Experian Nihon Geino Jitsuenka Dantai Kyogikai (2007) Structural Changes of the Performing Art: The Lights and Shadows of the Past Decade/Experian Times BFI London Film Festival New York Film Festival Mairie de Paris Yahoo UK Film Council (2007) Statistical Yearbook/Experian Motion Picture Association/ Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007)/Experian Chinas Cultural Industry Development in 2006/Experian Japan Council of Performers Organisations/Experian
Notes
Estimated from the national figure
No of cinema admissions per capita per year
London
New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo
4.8 2006 2.4 2005 0.6 2006 1.8 2004
No. of admissions at London main Film Festival New York City Paris Shanghai Total value of cinema ticket sales per year $ (PPP) London
114,910 2007 75,000 2007 70,000 2007 200,000 2004 $190,473,687 2006
Estimated from the national figure Estimated from the national figure
New York State Paris Shanghai Tokyo
$260,052,030 2006 $201,111,111 2005 $27,326,728 2005 $273,833,962 2004
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Indicator Total value of cinema ticket sales per capita - $ (PPP)
City London
Figure Date $25 2006
Source UK Film Council (2007) Statistical Yearbook/Experian Motion Picture Association/ Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007)/Experian Chinas Cultural Industry Development in 2006/Experian Japan Council of Performers Organisations/Experian Chart-Track/Experian
Notes Estimated from the national figure Estimated from the national figure
New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo Total value of computer and video games sales per year $ (PPP) London
$32 2006 $18 2005 $2 2005 $22 2004 $533,033,333 2006
New York Met Tokyo Total value of all music CD sales - $ (PPP) London
$577,782,099 2006 $766,807,141 2006 $515,417,528 2006
Entertainment Software Association/Experian Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association/Experian The Official UK Charts Company/Experian Recording Industry Association of America/Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007)/ Experian Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007/Experian Recording Industry Association of Japan/Experian The Official UK Charts Company/Experian
New York Met Paris
$715,434,781 $223,452,181
2006 2005
Shanghai Tokyo Total value of all music CD sales per capita per year- $ (PPP) London
$27,394,263 $391,840,496 $68.61
2006 2006 2006
New York Met Paris
$38.02 $19.60
2006 2005
Recording Industry Association of America/Experian Ministre de la culture et de la communuication (2007)/ Experian Shanghai Statistical Yearbook 2007/Experian Recording Industry Association of Japan/Experian
Shanghai Tokyo
$1.51 $31.16
2006 2006
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Indicator Estimated attendance at main Carnival /Festival
City London
Figure 2m over the Weekend
Date 2007
Source Notting Hill Carnival Organisers
Notes
New York City Shanghai Estimated attendance at main carnival/ festival as % of citypopulation London
2.5 million 450,000 27%
2007 2006 2007
Carnival Organisers/Sponsors Macys eastday.com Notting Hill Carnival/Experian
New York City Shanghai No. of International Tourists per year London New York City Paris Shanghai Tokyo No of international tourists per year as % of city population London
30% 2% 15,640,000 8,140,000 9,700,000 4,300,000 1,470,000 208%
2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006
Macys/Experian Eastday/Experian Euromonitor (2007) Top 150 City Destinations Ranking Euromonitor (2007) Top 150 City Destinations Ranking Euromonitor (2007) Top 150 City Destinations Ranking Euromonitor (2007) Top 150 City Destinations Ranking Euromonitor (2007) Top 150 City Destinations Ranking Euromonitor/Experian
New York Met Paris
99% 85%
2006 2006
Euromonitor/Experian Euromonitor/Experian
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Data references, providers and resources

C1 General C2 London C3 New York C4 Paris C5 Shanghai C6 Tokyo Bibliography
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Appendix C Data references, providers and resources
Transparency is a public duty and an objective of research. Inthis appendix we seek to provide the reader to all the sources consulted so that they can be verified and in future work, if need be corrected.
We have grouped the main data sources by the cities that they cover, with a short section at the beginning dealing with generic data sources that do not correspond to any particular city. This means that some of the references in the text relate to entries in this appendix and therefore do not appear in the bibliography. This report is available in electronic form and so in case of difficulty, the reader can search the text to find them. The general principle that we have tried to follow is to place references to books, journal and newspaper articles in the bibliography, and references to direct sources of factual information in this section. This principle does not always applyperfectly, for which we apologise.
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European Creative Industries website: www.european-creative-industries.eu DCMS (2001) Creative Industries Mapping Document. London: DCMS. DCMS (2004) Evidence Toolkit: Technical Report. DCMS (2007) Creative Industries Statistical Estimates Statistical Bulletin, London: DCMS. www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4DE5B8FB-A95F-49B6-9900-3BE475622851/0/ CreativeIndustriesEconomicEstimates2007.pdf Disney Corporation (2005) Corporate Factbook http://corporate.disney.go.com/investors/ fact_books/2006/index.html Frontier Economics (2007) Multinationals in the UK Creative Industries. London: Frontier Economics, August 2007. http://headshift.com/dcms/mt/archives/blog_36/3%20-%20Mult inationals%20in%20the%20UK%20Creative%20Industries.doc GLA (2002) Creativity: Londons Core Business. London: Greater London Authority, September 2002 www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/create_inds_rep02.pdf> GLA (2004) Londons Creative Sector: 2004 update. London: Greater London Authority www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/creative_sector2004.pdf GLA (2004b) Measuring and Comparing World Cities, Working Paper 9. London: Greater London Authority www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/workingpaper_09.pdf GLA (2005) Towards a common standard Comparing European and American cities, Working Paper 13. London: Greater London Authority, July 2005 www.london.gov.uk/ mayor/economic_unit/docs/wp13_towards_a_common_standard.pdf GLA (2007) Londons Creative Sector: 2007 Update July 2007, Working Paper 22. London: Greater London Authority www.london.gov.uk/mayor/economic_unit/docs/wp_22_ creative.pdf (Accessed 1/2/2008). Price Waterhouse Cooper (2007) Cities of Opportunity. New York: Pwc. ONS (2006) Input-Output Tables. London: Office for National Statistics.
C2 London
References ALM London (2005) Londons Cultural Equation. City of London (2007), City of London Libraries: City Business Library, from: www. cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_ galleries/city_london_libraries/cbl.htm Comscore, Comscore World Metrix Study 2007, at: www.comscore.com DCMS (2005), DCMS Annual Report 2006, 2007, at: www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/ 6A583367-C9E0-4D29-8651-C559E9550C20/0/DCMS_AR_06pt1.pdf DCMS (2005/6), DCMS Taking Part Survey 2007, at: www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_ library/Publications/archive_2007/takingpart_estyr2.htm
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Euromonitor (2007) Top 150 City Destinations Ranking, www.euromonitor.com/Top_150_ City_Destinations_London_Leads_the_Way London Assembly (2003) Picture perfect? A London Assembly report into the CapitalsCinemas. Mayor of London (2002), Connecting with Londons nature: The Mayors Biodiversity Strategy, 2007, at: www.london.gov.uk/mayor/strategies/biodiversity/docs/strat_full.pdf Museums, Libraries and Archives London (MLA London) (2007) Londons archives, libraries and museums - Facts and Figures, at: www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/ Facts_and_Figures.pdf SOLT (2007), SOLT Box Office Data Report 2006, at: www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/westend/stats/data Office for National Statistics (ONS) (2007), The Time Use Survey 2005, at: www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/time_use_2005.pdf Oxford Economics (2007) The economic impact of Londons international students, report for London Higher, at: www.londonhigher.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/ OxfordEconomicsReportpdf The Booksellers Association (2007), Booksellers Association of Directory of Members 2007/08, from: www.booksellers.org.uk The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) (2007) Public Library Statistics 2007,at: www.cipfa.org.uk/press/press_show.cfm?news_id=26181 UK Film Council (2007), UKFC Statistical Yearbook (2006/7), at: http://rsu.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/?y=2006 UNESCO (2005), UNESCO World Heritage United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/gb Providers and organisations The Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland represents over 95% of booksellers in the UK and Ireland, at: www.booksellers.org.uk Chart-Track was formed in 1996 to monitor sales of music, videos and software through retail in the UK and Ireland, www.chart-track.co.uk CultureMap, developed by Audiences London, is a pilot for a new online resource for London that brings together information about cultural provision principally publicly-supported provision with data about users and audiences, at: http://culturemaplondon.org Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) represents retailers who sell entertainment products such as recorded music, DVDS and games (multimedia), at: www.bardltd.org/content/home.asp Euromonitor International is a leading international, independent provider of business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers, www.euromonitor.com Experians National Business Database, is the UKs leading B2B marketing database featuring demographic and credit information updated monthly on more than 16 million businesses, at: www.experian.com/products/national_business_database.html
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The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is the official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education in the UK, at: www.hesa.ac.uk Film London is the capitals film and media agency, at: www.filmlondon.org.uk/ London Higher is the representative umbrella organisation for universities and higher education colleges in London, at: www.londonhigher.ac.uk Nielsen BookScan collects the retail sales information from point of sale systems in more than 20,000 bookshops around the world, with 92% coverage of the book market in the UK, at: www.nielsenbookscan.co.uk/controller.php?page=48 Notting Hill Carnival, at: www.nottinghillcarnival.org.uk The Official UK Charts Company is governed by the Charts Supervisory Committee comprising representatives from retailers, record companies and broadcasters www.theofficialcharts.com The Publishers Association is the trade association for the UKs publishing industry, at: www.publishers.org.uk/en/home The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is the trade association that represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of the major commercial and grant-aided theatres in central London, at: www.solt.co.uk
Time Out London, at: www.timeout.com/london

The Times British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival, at: www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/lff Visit Britain, the national tourism agency, promotes Britain internationally in 36 markets www.visitbritain.com/en Visit London was established in 1963 and is the official visitor organisation for London, at: www.visitlondon.com
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bpi.fr, at: http://www.bpi.fr Comscore, Comscore World Metrix Study 2007, from: www.comscore.com Conservatoire National Suprieur dArt Dramatique (CNSAD), at: www.cnsad.fr/interface.php Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique, at: www.cnsmdp.fr/english/interface/ frame/frame_all.htm Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs (ENSAD), at: www.ensad.fr/accueil.htm Eurostat (2001), at: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,30070682 ,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
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FilmFestivals.com (an M21 Editions company) hosts the number one portal site for festivals and film news, at: www.filmfestivals.com/index.shtml justfrance.org, at: www.justfrance.org Mairie de Paris, at: www.paris.fr/portail/english/Portal.lut?page_id=8118 Ministre de la culture et de la communuication, at: www.culture.gouv.fr Ministre de leducation nationale (2003/04), at: www.education.gouv.fr Office du Tourisme, the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau was set up at the joint initiative of the Paris City Hall and the Paris Chamber of Commerce as a non-profit making association, at: www.parisinfo.com pagesjaunes.fr, Frances leading business directory, at: www.pagesjaunes.fr/trouverlesprofessionnels/index.do UNESO (2007) World Heritage Site France, at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/fr
C5 Shanghai
China Education Online, Chinas biggest comprehensive education gateway website, at: www.eol.cn Comscore, Comscore World Metrix Study 2007, at: www.comscore.com ddmap.com, online maps for Shanghai and other cities in China, www.ddmap.com/map/21/gsp-p05.03.06-t%CA%E9%B5%EA-k-to297-c14.htm eastday.com, english.eastday.com is the premier online source of China news and global business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, culture and society, at: www.eastday.com Euromonitor, Euromonitor International is the worlds leading independent provider of business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers, at: www.euromonitor.com/Top_150_City_Destinations_London_Leads_the_Way Institute of Philosophy of Chinese Academy of Social Science (2006), Chinas Cultural Industry Development in 2006, at: http://philosophy.cass.cn/org/zxin/sgwh_zx_.htm Kongfz.com, the biggest on-line rare & second-hand book market in China, at http://kongfz.com/ Ministry of Culture of China, at: www.ccnt.gov.cn National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Shanghai Culture Yearbook 2005, at http://tinyurl.com/3767mu
Shanghai Morning Post (2005), More than 6000 students go for arts institutions in Shanghai, at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/edu/2005-01/25/content_2503784.htm
Shanghai Municipal Government (2006) Shanghai Yearbook 2006, at: www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node2314/node17184/index.html
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Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau is a municipal governmental department in charge of the citys statistics. The bureau is under the administration of the State Statistics Bureau and the municipal government. SINA Corporation is a leading online media company and value-added information service provider for China and for global Chinese communities, Data on China Cinema Market 2005, at http://ent.sina.com.cn/m/2006-03-13/16351014496.html sh.gov.cn (2006), the official website for China Shanghai government, Shanghai Yearbook 2006, at: www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node2314/node17184/index.html SOHU.com, Sohu.com Inc. is Chinas leading social network, information and community provider information, entertainment and communication, World Association of Newspaper (2007) at: http://news.sohu.com/20070604/n250385011.shtml UNESCO World Heritage Centre (2007), http://whc.unesco.org/ XINHUANET.COM, The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC, China TV Market Report 2004-2005, at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/newmedia/2005-01/05/content_2418944_5.htm
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Appendix C Data references, providers and resources  100

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Ken Livingstone Mayor of London

Designer: Avshalom Gur. Photographer: Ian Gillet.

1.1 Benchmarking city cultures

1.2 T  he cultural environment and its economic impact

Box 1.1: Indices of human and intellectual capital

Intellectual Capital Score 23 22 19 18 17 15 12 9 8 8 4

Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C  ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C  ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

2.3 World cities and their influences

Chart 2.1: connectedness among the top ten world cities

Shared presences of multinational companies at least 35 at least 30

Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C  ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Miami Amsterdama The Haguea Toronto Vancouver

London Brussels Munich Zurich

Montreal Ottawa Singapore

New York San Francisco

Paris Chicago Tokyo Shanghai

Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

Vaisakhi Piers Alladyce.

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Table 2.1 Main characteristics of comparator cities11

Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C  ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C  ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

2.5 No accident: Londons world status and its consequences

Section 2 Culture and the city: Definitions and choices

London Design Festival Graham Carlow.

Determinants of cultural demand

Section 3 D  eterminants of cultural demand

3.1 Drivers of a growth market

Chart 3.1 Consumer demand for creative products in the UK

Section 3 Determinants of cultural demand

Chart 3.3 Proportion of the worlds population living in urban areas

Advertising, architecture, software Banking and finance

US Bureau of Labour Statistics.

Latin America North America

Section 3 D  eterminants of cultural demand

Chart 3.4 UK employment in goods and service industries 18412001

Section 3 Determinants of cultural demand

3.2 Creativity: a core activity

54% 36% 42% 18% 18% 23% 19%

Section 3 D  eterminants of cultural demand

Section 3 Determinants of cultural demand

Trafalgar Square Festival James O Jenkins.

Section 3 D  eterminants of cultural demand

Box 3.1: Londons advertising industry

Section 3 Determinants of cultural demand

Section 3 D  eterminants of cultural demand

3.3 Forgotten but not gone: public spending and patronage

Section 3 Determinants of cultural demand

Table 3.3 Sources of public spending on culture in the UK

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1.1 Benchmarking city cultures

1.2 T he cultural environment and its economic impact

Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 2 C ulture and the city: Definitions and choices

Section 3 D eterminants of cultural demand

Section 3 D eterminants of cultural demand

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Section 3 D eterminants of cultural demand

Section 3 D eterminants of cultural demand