PLACES IN MAKING
The current diversity and breadth of placemaking projects and processes is both a vindication for placemaking and a challenge for advocates and thought leaders as they seek to hone the placemaking message and develop a collective case for relevancy. How will the placemaking movement channel its tremendous momentum into positive results for communities and places? This research with in-depth case studies begins to answer this question.

NARRATIVE PROCESSES IN URBAN PLANNING
A case study on a town suffering from the effects of jobs losses and outmigration that occurred when labor intensive farming transitioned to the machine. A theater project has led to purported claims of community revitalization, new relationships, personal empowerment; the coproduction of an emerging and diverse community identity; and institutional and economic development.

CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION: ARTS, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITIES
To explore the role of arts and culture in transforming public housing communities, NOCD-NY convened a diverse range of residents for a roundtable in July 2015. Drawing on interviews carried out in the field, Creative Transformation: Arts, Culture and Public Housing Communities was designed to showcase exemplary partnerships that illustrated equitable, long-term approaches, identify barriers and challenges, develop recommendations and discuss how to move them into action, and more. 

SAFE ROUTES PARTNERSHIP
The Safe Routes to School National Partnership is a national non-profit that advances policy change and catalyzes support for healthy, active communities, starting with walking and bicycling to school. They are dedicated to creating livable, sustainable communities where all people can be healthy and physically active. This is their resources page.

MAKING UP CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
Creative placemaking is an increasingly prevalent form of planning practice that invokes arts and culture as tools for revitalization. Using frameworks developed by Foucault and Hacking, this report analyzes the emergence and ongoing contestation of this term, contrasting the way creative placemaking is understood and enacted by actors in Philadelphia with definitions employed by national funders.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: RETHINKING THE ROLE OF ARTS & CULTURE IN STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES

THE NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL EXCHANGE
This series draws on the power of connection to bridge further conversation across the regions, sectors, and place-based philosophies that make the work of creative placemaking so essential to the future of our rural places. Roughly every three weeks, these Digital Exchanges offered an opportunity for folks to come together and engage with leaders working across the dynamic range of fields that compose the foundation of rural creative placemaking.

FIND AN ARTIST TOOLKIT
Artists are everywhere, and have enormous capacity to shape the world around us! This toolkit was created by Springboard for the Arts as a tool to help organizations in finding, commissioning and hiring artists to create work. This toolkit walks through different types of calls, budgeting and timeline processes, and sample templates to inspire your work.

GUIDE FOR BUSINESS DISTRICTS TO WORK WITH LOCAL ARTISTS
A free guide for place managers to work with artists on creative placemaking projects. The guide was created for International Downtown Association by Springboard for the Arts from their experience working with artists and consulting on creative placemaking work across the country, the guide contains tools for partnership building between BIDs and artists, collaboration between community stakeholders, budgeting and project management.

SMART GROWTH AMERICA'S CREATIVE PLACEMAKING RESOURCES
Smart Growth is an approach to development that encourages a mix of building types and uses, diverse housing and transportation options, development within existing neighborhoods, and community engagement. There are multiple resources in their website.