Cultural Facilities in The Cultural City Model: Key lessons from Valencia’s Ciutat de l’Artista Faller projectThis paper reviews the idea of cultural facilities with a view to broadening our grasp of the role culture plays in today’s cities. In developing our argument, we first give a brief overview of the management and governance of major cities in Spain since the restoration of democracy, stressing the role played by cultural facilities. We then reflect on cultural facilities, situating them within the framework of the Cultural Democratization Model — a public policy paradigm whose major limitations and shortcomings need to be addressed. Our proposed alternative is ‘The Cultural City’ framework, which provides conceptual tools for reorienting and reconnecting cultural and urban policies. This framework recognizes the city as an artifact with three basic functions: Repository, Interface, and Stage, and puts citizens’ cultural rights and needs first. The paper takes the case of the Strategic Framework for the Transformation and Recovery of the Ciutat de l’Artista Faller to exemplify the scope offered by The Cultural City model. The case studied reveals a cultural strategy for fostering urban transformation, and a productive environment based on The Arts, creativity, and innovation. To this end, the project stresses cultural access, a collaborative locus of experience, encounter, and collaboration. The final goal of this approach to greatly broaden citizens’ cultural rights.Keywords: cultural democratization; city; urban planning; cultural policies; Valencia; Fallas