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The Role of Arts and Culture in Equitable Community Development: A Visual Analysis

THE ROLE OF ARTS AND CULTURE IN EQUITABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPENT: A VISUAL ANALYSIS
After releasing research findings in all ten sectors of ArtPlace’s Community Development Matrix, we developed one final resource: The Role of Arts and Culture in Equitable Community Development: A Visual Analysis. This comprehensive analysis cuts across all ten sectors, and is presented through an interactive infographic.

ArtPlace: 10 Years

ARTPLACE: 10 YEARS
ArtPlace: 10 Years tells the story of ArtPlace America. ArtPlace brought together a range of private philanthropy into coordinated partnership, then funded nearly 300 creative placemaking, placekeeping, and placetending initiatives across the country. 

2020 ARTPLACE VIRTUAL SUMMIT VIDEO ARCHIVE

2020 ARTPLACE VIRTUAL SUMMIT VIDEO ARCHIVE
ArtPlace America's Virtual Summit culminated a decade of work as part of an extraordinary community of artists, community developers, culture bearers, designers, government officials, philanthropists, and researchers who have come together from rural, suburban, Tribal, and urban communities across the United States. You can view a record of the 2020 plenaries here.

and still, we are trying — to dream

Amy Shimshon-Santo’s powerful poem “and still, we are trying — to dream…” documents a few days in revolutionary LA about community,  protests, vigils and uprisings. This writer, educator, and urbanist walks the talk in her belief that arts and culture are powerful tools for personal and social transformation. Her interdisciplinary work connects the arts, education, and urban planning.

Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery

STREETS FOR PANDEMIC RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery compiles emerging practices from around the world and includes implementation resources for cities and their partners. Recognizing the rapidly changing nature of this pandemic, Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery will be revised and expanded to include new strategies, address changing conditions, and provide the best possible information on each design practice.

Creative Placemaking: For Whom By Whom

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: FOR WHOM BY WHOM
“For Whom, By Whom” chronicles how creative placemaking can expand opportunities for low-income people living in disinvested communities. These stories give lie to the false narrative that such neighborhoods are home to violence and deprivation instead of talent, imagination and solutions. Here are communities that produce incredible feats despite being terminally under-resourced, and despite systemic neglect that has persisted for generations.

Asphalt Art Guide

ASPHALT ART GUIDE
The Bloomberg Associates Asphalt Art Guide features successful plaza and roadway art activations around the world, as well as key steps and tips for developing such projects. By sharing lessons learned from Asheville to Athens, Bogota to Boston, we hope to help city agencies, community organizations and artists be most efficient in championing projects that deliver safer, more beautiful streetscapes.

Representation Matters: Change is Happening

REPRESENTATION MATTERS: CHANGE IS HAPPENING
Every day, Next City tells the stories of designers, planners, entrepreneurs and other urban professionals who bring a diverse group of voices into the conversation about cities through equitable business models, new collaborations and inclusive engagement. In this issue they’ve assembled nine stories in this ebook that illuminate this work, in sectors ranging from tech to transportation to parks to healthy food access and more. 

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