This is the online first version published on 2022-02-09. Read the most recent version. Cultural Infrastructures in Small and Medium- Sized Cities in Germany. A Location Typology of Cultural Services of General Interest Authors Christoph Mager Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3147-5725 Madeleine Wagner Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-9824 DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/rur.92 Keywords: small and medium-sized towns, cultural infrastructures, Germany, principle component analysis, public services of general interest Abstract Data on cultural infrastructures in Germany are characterised by great heterogeneity in terms of availability and analytical comparability. This is evident in functional typologisations, which are largely limited to major cities and to a small number of cultural indicators. Furthermore, the ongoing discussions about the provision of services of general interest lack quantifiable and qualifiable substantiation that adequately take into account not only technical facilities but also infrastructures that facilitate everyday social life, including educational and cultural amenities. The aim of this paper is to identify location patterns of cultural infrastructures focusing on small and medium-sized towns, which have been largely neglected analytically.We apply a principal component analysis to comprehensive data on infrastructures of nine cultural sectors in order to identify spatial patterns of agglomeration. The linear dimensionality reduction resulted in three components, “Everyday Culture and High Culture”, “Reading and Art” and “Making Music and Educating Oneself”. The results emphasise the role of small and medium-sized towns in providing differentiated cultural services of general interest and provide systematic links for cultural governance. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (German) HTML (German) XML (German) Published 2022-02-09 Versions 2022-08-31 (2) 2022-02-09 (1) Issue Vol. 80 No. 4 (2022) Section Research Article License Copyright (c) 2022 Christoph Mager , Madeleine Wagner This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Articles in Raumforschung und Raumordnung – Spatial Research and Planning are published under a Creative Commons license. From Vol. 79 No. 2 (2021), the license applied is CC BY 4.0. From Vol. 77 No. 1 to Vol. 79 No.1, articles were published under a CC BY-SA license. Earlier volumes have been re-published by oekom 2022 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0. How to Cite 1.Mager C, Wagner M. Cultural Infrastructures in Small and Medium- Sized Cities in Germany. A Location Typology of Cultural Services of General Interest. RuR [Internet]. 2022 Feb. 9 [cited 2024 May 4];80(4). Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/92 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX
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