ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the use of cultural mapping methodologies examining the different analytical approaches used in recent cultural policy documents. Cultural mapping entails at least three approaches capable of displaying different fundamental features of the cultural sector: economy, location, and networks. The attention to the economic aspect is the most popular mapping approach, but it is also the most criticized. Two major approaches have been used to collect data for an economic measurement, namely an industrial approach and an occupational approach. Canada played a leading role in conceptualizing cultural mapping as geographic visualization and in providing instructions to local governments on how to perform it. The Cultural mapping tool kit released in 2007 as the result of a partnership between 2010 Legacies Now and the Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC). This toolkit is written as a guide that takes local administrators through the steps of the mapping process, from creating an inventory to presenting a map.
