{"id":65706,"key":"UNESCO_Creative_Cities_Network","title":"UNESCO Creative Cities Network","latest":{"id":1207334,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T22:03:02Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:UCCNlogo.png|center|400px]]\n\nThe UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) is a network created in 2004.<ref name=\"unesco\">http://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/content/about-us</ref>\n\nThe purpose of UCCN is to foster cooperation both with and among cities that consider creativity is an important part of ensuring sustainable urban development.<ref name=\"unesco\" /> Creative and cultural industries are central to development plans for cities participating in UCCN, as well as cooperating internationally.<ref name=\"unesco\" />\n\nAs at early 2016, 116 cities form a part of UCCN.<ref name=\"unesco\" />\n\n== Creative city activities ==\n\nThe cities forming part of UCCN are expected to share best practices concerning creativity in sustainable development. This includes developing partnerships made up of public, private and civil society sectors.<ref name=\"unesco\" /> The cities are expected to:\n\n\"''strengthen the creation, production, distribution and dissemination of cultural activities, goods and services; develop hubs of creativity and innovation and broaden opportunities for creators and professionals in the cultural sector; improve access to and participation in cultural life, in particular for marginalized or vulnerable groups and individuals; fully integrate culture and creativity into sustainable development plans.''\"<ref name=\"unesco\" />\n\nSeven creative fields are covered by the UCCN: Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Film, Design, Gastronomy, Literature and Music.<ref name=\"unesco\" />\n\n== Sources and citations ==\n\n<references />\n\n* Home page of UCCN: http://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/\n* UCCN's Mission Statement: http://web.archive.org/web/20160810130937/http://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/sites/creative-cities/files/Mission_Statement_UNESCO_Creative_Cities_Network_1.pdf\n* Actions and initiatives of UCCN: http://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/whatson\n* Joining the UCCN: http://en.unesco.org/creative-cities/content/join-network\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Discover how cities in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network use culture and design to build greener, more connected places on Appropedia.\n}}\n\n[[Category:International organizations]]\n[[Category:Cities]]\n[[Category:Creativity]]\n[[Category:Sustainable cities]]"}