The report benchmarks London’s cultural offer against four other world cities: Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai and is the first comprehensive such undertaking compiled according to international standards. It was the progenitor of the full-fledged World Cities Cultural Forum which now benchmarks 42 world cities and has held an annual forum engaging their cultural leaderships since 2012.
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This is the final version of the original report, which was published by the London Development Agency in March 2008 under the auspices of the Greater London Authority. Since I can no longer find the original on the website of the GLA, I have now uploaded the original full version to the academia site, since it is an important archival item, a keystone in the history of cultural evaluation.
The report fully acknowledges the many contributors, too numerous to mention here, to the final report.