'The cultural and creative cities monitor' is a new tool to monitor and assess the performance of 'cultural and creative cities' in Europe vis-à-vis their peers using both quantitative and qualitative data. This first edition covers 168 cities in 30 European countries (the EU-28 with Norway and...

Composite indicators are regularly used for benchmarking countries' performance, but equally often stir controversies about the unavoidable subjectivity that is connected with their construction. Data Envelopment Analysis helps to overcome some key limitations, viz., the undesirable dependence...

This first edition of the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor shows how well 168 selected cities in 30 European countries perform on a range of measures describing the 'Cultural Vibrancy', the 'Creative Economy' and the 'Enabling Environment' of a city. The Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor...