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City Regeneration Policies and Practices. Case Study: Skopje

After a brief outline of the social, political and economic image of the city, the authors enumerate major problems in the city regeneration policies encountered by the national and local institutions, NGO sector and the private sector. A special emphasis was given to the analysis of the NGO sector in Macedonia. Cultural industries are seen as an important sector for culture-centered city development and regeneration. The municipal authorities should recognize the role culture plays in economic revitalization and in addressing current multiethnic and multicultural realities, as well as recognize the contribution culture can make to social integration and emancipation. Any cultural policy created in future should support more than the ‘ high arts’ and local governments should begin to be interested in popular and youth culture and in the cultural industries. Only through cooperation and understanding between all the players involved and through the development of strategies for cultural industries that build alliances between business and culture, an effective cultural policy can be created and implemented, a policy that will provide for a better cultural future not only for Skopje but also for Macedonia.

cultural policy, urban rehabilitation, civil society

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