Art cities, cultural districts and museums : an economic and managerial study of the culture sector in Florence / edited by Luciana Lazzeretti

Contributor(s):

Lazzeretti, Luciana [ed.]

Language: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Firenze : Firenze University Press, cop. 2004Description: 241 pISBN:

888453125X

Summary: This book consists of a series of essays on the subject of the economic valorisation of the cultural, artistic and environmental heritage (CAEH) of the art city of Florence using a business economics approach which avails of three basic groups: the art city, cultural districts and museums. It is the result of the experience built up by a group of Florentine researchers who found an opportunity for encounter and discussion in their participation in the Postgraduate Course in Economics and the Management of Museum Assets, Faculty of Economics of Florence. The subject of economic valorisation has now become a current topic and the idea that culture can be considered a factor of economic production able to generate wealth appears to have been generally accepted in Italy too. It was only a few years ago that safeguarding and conserving the heritage were the only aspects considered while those people involved in management were almost exclusively figures with a training in the arts or humanities, whether art historians, archaeologists, men of letters or others. The book is divided into two parts. The first contains the main contribution regarding the issue of the economic valorisation of the art city's heritage which is first explored following a business logic, and then from the perspective of cultural districtualisation process. The sectors studied are the art restoration and the museum system of Florence, together with the benchmarking between Florence and Seville hotel industries. This first part concludes with an analytical review of the most significant programmes promoted by the European Community on this issue. The contributions presented in the second part, instead, are centred on preeminent Florence museums, which are approached from a strategic and managerial perspective, specifically the issues of controlling economic-financial management are addressed, and the museum as a knowledge creating system. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers focusing on the cultural economics and managerial economics of art and to practitioners in the cultural sector and policy makers. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02121	1	Available (Disponible)		1900098982

Acknowledgements -- If I were a traveller… -- Introduction -- I. Art cities and cultural districts: 1. The art city as a unit of analysis for strategic management. From the government of complexity to the government in evolution / Luciana Lazzeretti ; 2. The art city as a HCLocal System and cultural districtualisation processes : the art-restoration cluster in Florence / Luciana Lazzeretti ; 3. The cluster of Florence museums and the Network Analysis : the case study of “Museo dei Ragazzi” / Luciana Lazzeretti, Tommaso Cinti, Marco Mariani ; 4. Dynamic and localised density dependence in the hotel industry : benchmarking between Florence (1940-1996) and Seville (1945-1999) / Luciana Lazzeretti, Giancarla Brusoni, Francesco Capone ; 5. The economic enhancement of cultural and artistic heritage: a focus on Community programmes / Luciana Lazzeretti, Francesco Capone, Tommaso Cinti -- II. Art cities and museums: 6. The control system in non-profit organisations. A consideration of cultural Organisations / Barbara Sibilio ; 7. The enhancement of art assets through the establishment of foundations : the case of the Marino Marini Foundation in Florence / Francesca Papini, Niccolò Persiani ; 8. Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence (1882-1905) / Marco Mainardi, Massimo Valeri ; 9. The museum of the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore: the history of the first twenty-five years of activity / Fabio Ciaponi, Francesco Dainelli ; 10. The network of resources in museum management: the “New Palazzo Vecchio” in Florence / Elena Livi -- List of references -- Lists of tables and figures -- List of contributors

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