Culture. A strategy for local development is the work of a team based on research into the relationship between culture and territory and which defends an idea that is gradually emerging among all experts: the competitiveness of a territory is increasingly dependent on the management model of its symbolic dimension, that is to say on the set of meanings pervading that territory. Among other things, the book outlines in its various chapters how this relationship between culture and development is defined, such as the framework for action in cultural policy, what cultural agenda 21 means as a regulatory framework for cultural policy, what the Local Cultural System is, and what specificities entrepreneurship in culture shows. It is a long journey that shows us the multidimensionality of social phenomena and especially those linked to culture. The authors of this work, who start from the paradigm of the Economics of Culture, firmly believe in this mother idea and develop both theoretical frameworks and recommendations of specific policy models, with the aim of intelligently managing the cultural capacities of a territory. Its recommendations stem from a developed practice, over the last 10 years in analysing and diagnosing models of cultural intervention at local level. As the authors point out, 'cultural defines an effective and hopeful new frontier in the area of development'.