112019 20250130163246.0 doi 10.3390/su13137325 sideral 127098 ART-2021-127098 eng Escalona-Orcao, A.I. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8275-6201 Cultural dynamism and business vitality in medium-sized cities—evidence and proposals for sustainable development 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This work uses tools recently designed to conduct analyses and proposals around the cultural development of medium-sized cities. The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor model, or CCCM, is first applied to the 81 cities in Spain with between 50, 000 and 100, 000 inhabitants. We also refer to the UNESCO Culture/2030 Indicators, specifically indicator 8 (Cultural companies), to in-vestigate whether cultural dynamism is related to business vitality in those cities. Our observation of the 29 CCCM indicators and the C3 index, which synthesizes cultural performance, is explained, and these data are complemented with cultural business data (on assets, benefits, and jobs) from a sample of 13, 204 firms. The C3 index values reveal significant differences in the cultural and creative performance of the selected cities according to their location (metropolitan or non-metropolitan) and their administrative rank. Moreover, when comparing the C3 index with the indicators on business activity, evidence indicates a clear positive relationship between cultural dynamism and firm vitality. These results support the contribution of culture to the sustainable development of me-dium-sized Spanish cities and further establish the suitability of the tools used to assist cities in designing appropriate cultural policies. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/CSO2017-83603-C2-1-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.889 2021 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 57 / 128 = 0.445 2021 Q2 T2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 133 / 279 = 0.477 2021 Q2 T2 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 35 / 47 = 0.745 2021 Q3 T3 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 7 / 9 = 0.778 2021 Q4 T3 0.664 2021 Energy Engineering and Power Technology 2021 Q1 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2021 Q1 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2021 Q1 Geography, Planning and Development 2021 Q1 5.0 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Sánchez-Valverde García, B. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4098-8212 Navarro-Pérez, M.C. Pinillos-García, M. Conejos-Sevillano, A. 2007 265 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Métodos Estadísticos Área Estadís. Investig. Opera. 3006 435 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ. Área Geografía Humana 13, 13 (2021), 13137325 [29 pp] Sustainability (Basel) Sustainability (Switzerland) 2071-1050 Indicadores Cultura y Territorio Monitor Version 2020 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14741218 3815543 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112019/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2809257 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112019/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:112019 articulos driver 2025-01-30-16:31:18 ARTICLE