They can make public land available at discounted prices, embed cultural infrastructure into zoning and planning frameworks, or partner with philanthropists and ethical finance providers to make capital more readily available.

50% of our cities collect formal data to identify creative space supply and need but further evidence is needed. City governments can be more than just regulators – they can act as conveners, brokers and champions

Funders are beginning to shift their attention from one-off capital projects to long-term investment, leadership development, and permanent affordability mechanisms.

The most tenacious of all clichés about Los Angeles is that it is a place with no past. Bernard-Henri Lévy, in his 2006 travelogue, “American Vertigo,” called L.A. a “city without a history . . . whose historicity is nothing more than an ageless remorse.” A decade earlier, the urban geographer Michael Dear spoke of a “city without a past,” one that... See more