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UNESCO's Good Taste in Cities

8/02/2006 at 9:05 AM
Tags: Design, Cities (all tags)

UNESCO's The Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity awards cities "with established creative pedigrees" designations in several categories: Literature, Cinema, Music, Folk Art, Design, Media Arts, and Gastronomy.

In May, Montréal became the third city to receive a City of Design award, following Buenos Aires in May 2005 and Berlin in November 2005. Once cities are awarded these designations, they become members of the Alliance's "Creative Cities Network."

Other cities appointed to the network include Aswan, Egypt (as a City of Folk Art), Bologna (as a City of Music), Edinburgh (as a City of Literature), Popayan, Colombia (as a City of Gastronomy), Santa Fe, NM (as a City of Folk Art), and Seville (as a City of Music).

Note that Media Arts and Cinema remain, as of yet, unawarded designations.

We'd like to suggest a new category: City of Untrammeled Coolness. We nominate Ljubljana and Melbourne.

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