The article on cultural cities and their ecological involvement in cities published by the members of Econcult Pau Rausell-Ksterster, Sendy Ghirardi, Jordi Sanjuán, Francesco Molinari and Borja Abril was published by the Agencia CULT on July 12.

The Italian press agency CULT has analyzed in one of its newspapers how culture can improve the city's ecological situation through the publication "Cultural Experiences in the framework of "Cultural Towns": Measuring the socioeconomic impact of culture on urban performance." This article defines "cultural experience" and places it in a holistic conceptual model; "the cultural city" where it plays an important role in improving the realization of cities. The conceptual model combines the basic elements of heritage city, smart city and creative city.

The news report presents this study as a proposal for a new city model, allowing it to be analysed from different perspectives: 

1) The city as a resource repository: The Heritage City. In this case, the city is an urban area that has managed to identify and recognise the value of the material and symbolic resources of the cultural field and that, through a regulatory and regulatory process, maintains certain levels of protection and conservation.
2) The city as an interface for exchange and communication: Smart city. It can be understood as a set of innovation processes that improve urban life in terms of living conditions, economy, mobility and governance through information and communication technologies. 
3) The Creative City. It refers to the attractiveness and competitiveness of the urban environment based on cognitive and symbolic elements whose main mechanism for generating added value is the transformation of creativity into market, aesthetic or social innovation. 

In short, through the journal analyzed, it concludes that the promotion of cultural experiences can generate both economic and social benefits for cities. 

The article can be read at the following link.
The original publication can be consulted at the following link.