Jordi Pascual Ruiz

This is the OBS, a database of “good practices” in the area of culture and local sustainable development. Indexed with the 17 SDGs, the 9 Commitments of #Culture21Actions & the 70+ keywords in our thesaurus. UPDATE: more than 360 good practices (18 March 2024).

La Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México ha publicado el libro o memoria de gestión 2014-2018: Derechos Culturales y Políticas Públicas, que incluye el artículo “La Ciudad de México sitúa la dimensión cultural en el centro de su desarrollo”. Agradezco enormemente a Eduardo Vázquez esta oportunidad.  

En el año 2016 publiqué el estudio de caso “Los temas culturales en las agendas urbanas” en el libro ¿Cómo pueden ser más inteligentes las ciudades? (De momento no es de acceso libre…).  

The article “The maps that shape the roads. On the place of cultural policy actors in the debate on the sustainable development of cities“ was published in the Jahrbuch für Kulturpolitik 2017/18. I am grateful to the German KuPoGE network for this wonderful opportunity.

The UCLG Culture Committee and Mexico City approved the Declaration on “Culture and Peace” in the framework of the International Seminar “Cultural Rights and Peace in the City”, on 20 October 2018.

    My article “Cultural Rights, Local Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development: constructing a coherent narrative” for the Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development, an interdisciplinary academic peer-review research journal.

En el artículo “La cultura en la agenda urbana” publicado en el blog de Ciudad y Urbanismo de la UOC, presento algunos de los problemas que los actores culturales deben abordar; en síntesis: modificar las estructuras de gobernanza de la cultura y acercarlas a la ciudadanía.

This is a long article: “Culture as a pillar in sustainability: the best is yet to come“. The consideration of culture as a stand-alone pillar, dimension or component of sustainability (the fourth or the first) is the best strategy, not only for the agency of cultural actors but as a […]

Back from UN Conference Habitat 3 in Quito, colleagues of Culture Action Europe asked me to write a short article on what can cities do with the New Urban Agenda. It was published in December 2016.

At the UN Conference Habitat 3 in Quito, on 18 October 2016, I gave a brief speech with observations and comments on “culture in sustainable cities”. I was representing UCLG – Agenda 21 for culture. Aussi en français. También en español.