ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews a range of specific impacts and measurements used to evaluate the effects of culture and regeneration in physical, economic and social terms, with examples of some of the evidence arising and its limitations. Much of the literature on the contribution of culture to society now uses the language of impacts. Measuring the contribution that culture can and does make to regeneration is primarily viewed as an externality. The feasibility and evaluation studies undertaken pre- and post-regeneration projects ideally would attempt to measure these wider effects and the assessment of demand/need, which in the past has been based upon basic urban settlement planning norms of amenity and infrastructure levels required to support a largely homogeneous population. The chapter introduces the growing demands for evidence-based policy evaluation in this field, including the types of reporting which arise in the regeneration process and promotion of major cultural facilities.
