Culture. Strategy for local development, is the work of a team consolidated in the research on the relationship between culture and territory and which defends an idea that is gradually gaining ground among experts: the competitiveness of a territory is increasingly dependent on the management model of its symbolic dimension, i.e. the set of meanings that permeate the territory. In its different chapters, the book sets out, among other things, how this relationship between culture and development takes shape, what the framework for action of cultural policy is, what Agenda 21 for culture means as a regulatory framework for cultural policy, what the Local Cultural System is, and what specificities entrepreneurship in culture has to offer. A long journey that shows us the multidimensionality of social phenomena, especially those linked to culture. The authors of the present work, who start from the Economics of Culture paradigm, firmly believe in this main idea and develop both theoretical frameworks and recommendations for specific policy models, with the aim of intelligently managing the cultural capacities of a territory. Their recommendations come from a practice developed over the last 10 years in the analysis and diagnosis of cultural intervention models at the local level. As the authors point out, "the cultural defines an effective and hopeful new frontier in the field of development".