RURAL ARTS, DESIGN, AND INNOVATION IN AMERICA
This report stemmed from a research collaboration with the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It analyzes data from the Rural Establishment Innovation Survey to quantify relationships among arts organizations, design-integrated firms, and business innovators in rural settings.

INTEGRATING ARTISTS AND CITY PLANNING
By integrating best stormwater management practices and replicating those at other sites, the Fargo project has modified city governance structures to have a less intrusive style of land management, educated community on the benefits of the ecological restoration practices, and explored the role of the artist to carry the vision of transformation.

CROSSING THE STREET
This initiative seeks to foster relationships between residents in rapidly transitioning neighborhoods. Crossing the Street launched in early 2016 with a focus on creating fun and inclusive experiences in neighborhoods across the city. The projects were designed to build community in areas that are experiencing rapid change, using arts and culture to activate space, foster conversation and collaboration and highlight and support existing neighborhood assets. 

DOING WELL AND DOING GOOD BY DOING ART
Are there connections between involvement in arts learning and general academic success? In 2009, this researcher analyzed ten additional years of NELS data related to the previously studied students, then age 26. The results strongly connect arts learning with both general academic success and pro-social outcomes (i.e., outcomes such as volunteerism, involvement in the community, or civic participation).

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. 

DICK & RICK: A VISUAL PRIMER FOR SOCIAL IMPACT DESIGN
More and more people are practicing some form of community-engaged design, or social impact design, or human-centered design. But are there right and wrong ways to do it? The Equity Collective, a group of practitioners in the field, worked with CUP and illustrator Ping Zhu to create a tongue-in-cheek storybook that shines a light on how good community-engaged design practices can not only create good projects, but also advance social justice.

THE FIELD GUIDE FOR CREATIVE PLACEMAKING AND PARKS
The Field Guide is intended to connect creative placemaking with parks and open spaces. It answers two important questions: first, "What is creative placemaking?" and second, "How does creative placemaking make for better parks and stronger communities?"

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING AND EXPANSION OF OPPORTUNITY
This paper examines critical needs or opportunities to help the Creative Placemaking field continue to take root in community planning, and to better contribute to expanded opportunity and equity in low-income communities.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: MORE THAN MURALS
Learnings from the Enterprise Climate & Cultural Resilience program which explored the evolution of the creative placemaking field. It discusses what creative placemaking is and asks how can it be a more interdisciplinary tool, what is its benefit to community members, to community developers, and to national organizations?

CULTURAL MAPPING: A HANDBOOK FOR DEVELOPING A CREATIVE PLACEMAKING TOOL
This handbook outlines the process of creating GEOLOOM, a tool to foster creative placemaking through capturing the broad range of arts and culture in Baltimore, Maryland. The process can be adapted for a community of any size, city or town, urban or rural and hopes to assist in the decision-making necessary for making communities vibrant and sustainable.