Resources on non-urban culture
Since the establishment of our dedicated working group back in 2016, non-urban culture has been one of our main fields of work. Browse the sections below to discover our ongoing collection of resources on the topic.
IN SITU consortium, State of cultural policies for CCIs in non-urban areas, 2024
IETM, FRESH PERSPECTIVES 9: Arts in Rural Areas, 2020
Culture Action Europe, Culture Crops: Cultural Practices in non-urban Territories, Beyond the Obvious Report 2019
Wolfgang Schneider and Beate Kegler (ed), Vital Village, Transcript Verlag, 2018
European Network for Rural Development, Arts and Culture in rural areas, Background material for the 5th NRN Meeting & Amsterdam Rural Forum, 2016
IN SITU, Gender dimension of CCIs in non-urban areas, 2023
Dedicated resource page of ENCC conference entitled: Artistic Processes and Cultural Participation - New Perspectives for Rural Development, the University of Hildesheim, Germany, 2017.
Benito Burgos, Andrea López, Luis Antonio Sáez, María Cruz Navarro, Vicente Pinilla, Claves e impactos de la cultura en el medio rural. El valor de lo intangible, 2024
Simona Bravaglieri, Hanna Elisabet Åberg, Alessia Bertuca, Claudia de Luca, Multi-actor rural innovation ecosystems: Definition, dynamics, and spatial relations, 2025
European Commission, The EU 2040 rural vision, 2023
Policy Learning Platform for a Europe closer to Citizens, Urban-rural linkages, 2024
ENCC, Culture Action Europe, IETM and Trans Europe Halles, Beyond the Urban: Contemporary Arts and Culture as Keys to a Sustainable and Cohesive Europe, March 2020.
ENCC and 100+Stakeholders: Crowdsourced Manifesto: Culture for Shared, Smart, Innovative Territories, 2016-2020
RUMRA & Smart Villages Intergroup on Rural, Mountainous, and Remote Areas, European Parliament Manifesto: Building a Sustainable Future for Rural Communities in Europe, 2019
European Rural Parliament, Rural People's Declaration, 2019
Nancy Duxbury, Victoria Durrer, Rike Sitas, Cultural policy actions towards urban sustainability: Research and practice collaborations, 2024
Marie Hyland, Massimiliano Mascherini, Michèle Lamont, Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition, 2024
Benedetta Baldassarre and Claudia De Luca, Cultural and natural resources for Cultural Tourism in non-urban areas: a review of definitions and climate-related hazards implications, 2024
Raghavendra Kattimani and Varuvel Devadas, Urban cultural dynamics in planning: a bibliometric analysis, 2024
Claudia Zeiske, Transformational Fieldwork: or how might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?, 2022
John McDonagh, Birte Nienaber and Michael Woods (ed), Globalization and Europe's Rural Regions, Routledge, 2016
J. Javier Serrano, Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach, International Review of Social Research 2016.
Toivo Muilu, Niina Kotavaara, Networking rural expertise, Linking competitiveness with equity and sustainability: new ideas for the socio-economic development of rural areas, University of Oulu Finland, European Rural Development Network, 2010.
Dr Ian Hunter, A Cultural Strategy for Rural England: Investing in Rural Community Creativity and Cultural Capital, LITTORAL Arts 2006.
Arora Saurabh, Bulat Sanditov, Cultures of Caste and Rural Development in the Social Network of a South Indian Village, SAGE 2015.
Jo Lee, Arnar Árnason, Andrea Nightingale and Mark Shucksmith, Networking: Social Capital and Identities in European Rural Development, European Society for Rural Sociology, Sociologia Ruralis, Vol 45, Number 4, 2005.
Georg Wiesinger, The importance of social capital in rural development, networking and decision-making in rural areas, Association pour la diffusion de la recherche alpine, 2007.
Dr. Nancy Duxbury and Heather Campbell, Developing and Revitalizing Rural Communities Through Arts and Culture. Summary Overview, Centre for Policy Research on Culture and Communities, Simon Fraser University, prepared for the Creative City Network of Canada, 2009.
Jenny Briedenhann, Eugenia Wickens, Tourism routes as a tool for the economic development of rural areas—vibrant hope or impossible dream?, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Wellesbourne Campus, 2003.
Jean-Paul Hautecoeur, Literacy and Cultural Development Strategies in Rural Areas, Alpha, 1994.
Fernando García Dory, Video keynote about the Inland project for Beyond the Urban webinar, 2020.
Rem Koolhaas, Countryside (complete lecture, Stedelijk Museum, 2012), Countryside (article, Icon, 2014), Countryside, The Future (exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, 2020).
Beatrice Ferrara and Leandro Pisano, Manifesto of Rural Futurism, 2019.
Nancy Duxbury, Activate the potential of the cultural and creative sector in non-urban areas, 2025
André Torre, Stefano Corsi, Michael Steiner, Frédéric Wallet, Hans Westlund, Smart development for rural areas, 2020
Culturescapes, December 2024
Catalysing Just Sustainability Transitions: socio-cultural pathways from non-urban areas, April 2024
Territorial Dimensions: towards an EU rural vision for 2040, December 2023
Territory. Scale. Action, December 2022
Wide Open Spaces, June 2021
Beyond the Urban, March 2020