Archinect - News 2024-11-22T04:14:57-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/102707442/why-cities-should-be-more-skeptical-of-new-cultural-centers-and-expansions Why Cities Should Be More Skeptical of New Cultural Centers and Expansions Alexander Walter 2014-06-25T13:41:00-04:00 >2014-07-01T23:03:25-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ec/ecb37805175c202d7ae1bd97d53dc960?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Through case studies, surveys, and construction-cost analyses, the Cultural Policy Center report found that the museum building boom didn't bring the net benefit to communities predicted by the so-called Bilbao Effect. [...] Beyond the standard gentrification effect [...] supply may have outstripped demand over the course of the U.S. arts center building boom&mdash;leaving some cities with the responsibility to maintain or even pay for cultural centers that they don't entirely need.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>