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Hello and welcome to the Urbanist, Monocle's programme all about the built environment.
I'm your host, Andrew Tuck.
Coming up, if you're not working with the cultural folks in your city to solve some of your big problems, I think that's a huge mistake.
We put culture on the agenda as we learn how both artistic offerings and culturally informed urban planning can benefit city dwellers.
The editors behind a recent book on cultural urban planning join us to discuss the far reaching advantages the practice offers to citizens.
We also drop by a treasured cultural institution in Peru and we discuss some of the most exciting new openings on offer around the world.
That's all ahead in the next 30 minutes right here on the Urbanist with me, Andrew Tuck.
Cultural activity in a city doesn't occur by accident, and it also doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Cities that practice good urban cultural planning are able to better serve their citizens both in enriching them on an artistic level as well as benefiting the city on a more holistic scale.
By leveraging cultural practices and learnings, planners can influence everything from housing to transportation to sustainability and health.
The recently published Routledge Handbook of Urban Cultural Planning surveys current thinking and and best practice to bring forward real life examples on how to improve a city by embracing culture.
To find out more, I'm happy to say I'm joined now by two of the people behind this book, Rana Amitomasebi, the founding principal of Urban Strategists eparc, and Jason Schubach, the dean of the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University.