Public Safety

Creative Placemaking and Community Safety

Through four case studies, this report analyzes how creative placemaking can affect community safety in concrete and abstract ways.

Building Beyond Policing

This is a case study of a creative placemaking project that worked with local law enforcement officials to turn an underutilized space into a public amenity and allow for positive engagement between community members and law enforcement officials. The project also incubated local businesses and created local jobs.

Empowering Young People to Make Their Place

This report is a case study of a project in Brooklyn that works at the intersection of creative placemaking and public safety. In this project, young people from the community-led most of the planning and implementation processes, which ensured that communication with the community would result in something that they were actually interested in.

Art Beyond Bars

This is a case study of a program that combines social services with cathartic arts activities to enhance re-entry conditions in Philadelphia, with the goals of improving quality of life and public safety. It is one example of the link between creative placemaking and public safety. This report shares project successes and lessons learned.

Arts, Culture and Transportation: A Creative Placemaking Field Scan

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.

Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersect with Public Safety: Identifying Current Practice and Opportunities for Further Inquiry

This scan considers the positive impact of place-based creative activity on public safety. They find that arts-based projects can enhance public safety efforts by promoting empathy and understanding, influencing law and policy, providing career opportunities, supporting community well-being, and contributing to quality of life.