Conceiving Opportunities, Realizing Opportunities
Admin Civic Arts
A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF ARTPLACE’S ...

Culminating from six years of research, Arts Place America developed this infographic in order to discuss how the arts and culture sector can support equitable community development in 13 key ways across 10 distinct sectors. Through collaborative and comprehensive research methods, this interactive infographic delves into each topic; ultimately highlighting how creative placemaking is an interdisciplinary field requiring big-picture thinking.

Realizing Opportunities, Evaluating Progress, Conceiving Opportunities, Learning and Iterating
Admin Civic Arts
Creative Placemaking: Sparking Development with ...

This report explains the benefit creative placemaking confers to developers. It further answers the questions of how developers can plan for and understand the economic incentive for utilizing creative placemaking in their projects.

ArtPlace Field Scans, Creative Cohort Module 2, New Understanding, Identifying Assets
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Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture ...

This report explores the potential for arts and cultural activity to contribute to community sustainability and resilience, in climate adaptability, energy, water, land, waste, and toxic pollution. The report finds that arts-based activities can help spark public demand by making environmental issues feel personal and real, build community capacity and agency, connected large-scale, abstract issues to personal experience, enrich and activate the built environment, and nurture sustainable economies.

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Bridging Policy and Placemaking to Activate Vacant Properties

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This report outlines the lessons learned from two case studies in St. Paul: Frogtown Green and Urban Flower Field. It goes through a lot of the nuts and bolts of creative placemaking projects in vacant spaces.

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Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan

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This report identifies seven ways that creative placemaking contributes to equitable transportation development: generating creative solutions for entrenched transportation problems, making streets safer for all users, organizing transportation advocates, engaging multiple stakeholders for an inclusive process, fostering local ownership, alleviating the disruptive effects of construction, and healing wounds and divisions.

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Creating Healthy Communities Through Cross-Sector Collaboration

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This field scan focuses on the intersection of creative placemaking and public health. It outlines the direct and indirect benefits that arts and culture can have on public health, which can be helpful for convincing municipal leaders to take on a similar project.