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Jon Hawkes, an Australian cultural policy commentator and author (Culture as the Fourth Pillar of Sustainability), was a guest of the Ministry and Local Government New Zealand in late July 2005 and spoke at events in Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wellington and Christchurch. The charts he presented at these sessions are available in the attached PDF

The papers from the 2004 Fourth Pillar of Sustainability conference can be downloaded from this web-site.

Jon Hawkes has discussed the work of the Melbourne-area council, City of Port Phillip, whose work on ‘Cultural Vitality' is similar to cultural well-being.

Former UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Tessa Jowell reports on how she sees the role of culture.

Deborah Mills is a consultant who specializes in cultural policy. In this paper, she considers the significance of culture in the planning process, and suggests ‘ways of seeing' culture within the functions of local government. This is a seminal article in theunderstanding of cultural well-being.

This is a guide to the connections between community cultural development and health, ecologically sustainable development, public housing and place, rural revitalization, community strengthening, active citizenship, social inclusion and cultural diversity.

As the leading organisation promoting better relations between New Zealand and its Asian neighbours, the Asia New Zealand Foundation makes a significant contribution to Track 2 dialogues and offers a useful directory as well as a Track 2 register of New Zealanders who have the skills, experience and expertise to contribute to New Zealand's international engagement in the Asian region.

A snappy overview of the recent literature about the relationship between arts festivals and community health.  Includes a list of useful publications.

In this paper, Keith Nurse  examins both the “culture of sustainable development’ in terms of how

it has evolved as a global agenda and how the cultural arena can be facilitated by the

construct of sustainable development. 

The paper was prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat,  London in 2006.

Traditionally, sustainability has largely been defined at the global and national level, but more recently it has been applied to cities and communities too. This shift in focus is reinforced, in part, through the adoption of sustainability frameworks and concerns by the community development field. ...

This special edition of Creative City News offers a taste of some of the evolving concepts around sustainable community development.