ABSTRACT
In the 60 years since cultural policy was conceived, the three fundamental challenges that prompted its development have retained their salience. Culture continues to be conceived as threatened, underdeveloped, and unequal, and continues to be understood as demanding intentional and coordinated government action to address those challenges. In other words, culture continues to be viewed as being in need of cultural policy. The goals associated with those three challenges continue to be relevant as well. General notions about cultural stewardship, development, and access together form a bottom-line understanding of what it is that cultural policies should be working to achieve. This chapter closes the volume by examining contemporary concerns with creativity, place, and cultural equity, and tying these topics back to those lasting cultural policy goals.
