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cultureshed

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A region felt to have close cultural affinities and relations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 2000, Marilyn Sifford, "Issue-Oriented Future Search: Creating a Frame," Future Searching No. 19, Summer/Fall 2000. The planning committee spent a great deal of time exploring the idea of a regional “cultureshed.” Cultural heritage does not usually begin and end at city, county, or state borders. As a watershed is based on the natural flow of rivers and streams, the concept of a “cultureshed” encourages us to rise above institutional and geographic boundaries to take an eagle’s eye view of the region and its history.
  • 2013, John Lorinc, "The City as Cultureshed," in A. Wilcox, C. Palassio, J. Dovercourt, The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto, Coach House Books, 2013. That's why we should begin to think of cities as "culturesheds" - deeply interconnected social, physical and economic systems that may be more or less attuned to the circulation of artistic ideas.

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History

Etymology

From culture + shed, on the model of watershed.