Strategies in public cultural planning : the need for an agenda

As Hong Kong aspires to be Asia’s World City of the 21st century, what strategies do we have to bring our city life, along with our entire urban lifeworld, to live up to this ambition? How have we been planning accordingly? And what does this mean for the people living here? What public resources should be invested and how should they be deployed toward the end? I propose to look at this from a global, contemporary cultural perspective.