4th ENCATC Working Group on Evaluation

Manchester, United Kingdom

Franco Bianchini

University of Hull, UK

Franco Bianchini is Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning - and Director of the  Culture, Place and Policy Institute - at the University of Hull, UK. He is part of a team in charge of the evaluation of the impacts and processes of Hull UK City of Culture 2017.

From 2010-2014 he was a member of the team preparing the successful bid by the city of Matera, in Southern Italy, for the title of European Capital of Culture for 2019. 

His books include Focus on Festivals  (co-edited with C. Newbold, C. Maughan and J. Jordan, Goodfellow, 2015), Urban Mindscapes of Europe (co-edited by G. Weiss-Sussex with F. Bianchini, Rodopi, 2006), Planning for the Intercultural City (with J. Bloomfield, Comedia, 2004), Culture and Neighbourhoods: A Comparative Report (with L. Ghilardi Santacatterina, Council of Europe, 1997), The Creative City (with Charles Landry, Demos, 1995) and Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration: the West European Experience (co-editor, with Michael  Parkinson, Manchester University Press, 1993).

His research interests include the role of culture in urban regeneration (with a particular focus on port cities and on European Cities/Capitals of Culture), and the study of cultural diversity and interculturalism as resources for innovation in urban policy.