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55 new cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network on World Cities Day
01.11.2023

On World Cities Day, 55 cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), following their designation by UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. New cities were acknowledged for their strong commitment to harnessing culture and creativity as part of their development strategies, and displaying innovative practices in human-centred urban planning. With the latest additions, the Network now counts 350 cities in more than one hundred countries, representing seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts and Music. In Russia, Veliky Novgorod joined the creative cities, presenting a musical direction.

The new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network are: 

Asaba – Film
Ashgabat – Design
Banja Luka – Music
Battambang – Gastronomy 
Bissau – Music
Bolzano – Music
Bremen – Literature 
Buffalo City – Literature
Bukhara – Crafts and Folk Art
Bydgoszcz – Music 
Caen – Media Arts
Caracas – Music 
Casablanca – Media Arts
Castelo Branco – Crafts and Folk Art
Cetinje – Design 
Chaozhou – Gastronomy
Chiang Rai – Design
Chongqing – Design 
Concepción – Music
Da Lat – Music
Fribourg – Gastronomy
Gangneung – Gastronomy
Granada[1] – Design
Gwalior – Music
Herakleion – Gastronomy
Hobart – Literature
Hoi An – Crafts and Folk Art
Iasi – Literature
Iloilo City – Gastronomy
Ipoh – Music
Kathmandu – Film
Kozhikode – Literature

Kutaisi – Literature

Mexicali – Music

Montecristi – Crafts and Folk Art

Montreux – Music

Nkongsamba – Gastronomy

Novi Sad – Media Arts

Okayama – Literature

Ouarzazate – Film

Oulu – Media Arts

Penedo – Film

Rio de Janeiro – Literature

Şanlıurfa – Music

Suphanburi – Music 

Surakarta – Crafts and Folk Art

Taif – Literature 

Toulouse – Music

Tukums – Literature

Ulaanbaatar – Crafts and Folk Art

Umngeni Howick – Crafts and Folk Art

Valencia – Design

Varaždin – Music

Veliky Novgorod – Music

Vicente Lopez – Film

The city of Lyon, Creative City of Media Arts since 2008, has been granted a status of a Creative City of Literature, following its request to change creative field.

Newly designated cities will cooperate with Network members to strengthen their resilience the face of evolving threats such as climate change, rising inequality, as well as rapid urbanization, with 68% of the world’s population projected to live in urban areas by 2050[2]. 

“The cities in our Creative Cities Network are leading the way when it comes to enhancing access to culture and galvanizing the power of creativity for urban resilience and development,” says Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General.

An upcoming policy paper – “The added value of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network at local, national and international level” – will testify to the leading role played by cities towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, while demonstrating ways in which UNESCO supports the UCCN members by fostering dialogue, peer-to-peer learning and collaboration.

The newly designated Creative Cities are invited to participate in the 2024 UCCN Annual Conference (1 - 5 July 2024) in Braga, Portugal, under the theme “Bringing Youth to the table for the next decade”

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[1] Granada (Nicaragua)

[2] https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html

31 October 2023

* link: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/55-new-cities-join-unesco-creative-cities-network-world-cities-day