CONGRESSIONAL ARTS HANDBOOK 

INSIDE ARTIST-MUNICIPAL PARTNERSHIPS
Animating Democracy’s Inside Artist-Municipal Partnerships blog salon interviews innovators in the field of local government. 

TRANSFORMING THE TRANSPORTATION CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC PRACTICE
This paper examines an artist-led tour program initiated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), as a case study, to demonstrate one way contemporary artistic practices are strategically implemented to further community engagement, by extending the reach of existing, integrated artworks during a capital project’s operational phase. 

TRANSFORMING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ARTS & CULTURE
The new edition of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Community Development Innovation Review explores an evolving era in community development that infuses art and cultural practice with that of community development organizations to help residents reclaim community identity, strengthen cultural resilience, and build power to shape neighborhood planning.

AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION'S KNOWLEDGEBASE
Contains multiple resources from the American Planning Association that provide background and policy guidance on creative placemaking for example Measuring Outcomes of Creative Placemaking, Creative Placemaking and Equity, Creative Placemaking and Community Goals, articles, reports, guides, factsheets, blog posts, plans, statutes, regulations, and useful websites. You can filter these search results by various graphic and demographic characteristics.

ARTUP
Consulting work in the area that includes community-engaged design, workshop facilitation, and project identification and management. ArtUp consultants include artists AND community members trained in arts-based community revitalization, entrepreneurship, and community engagement. They work with urban and rural locations across the country. Based in the Mid-South, they offer customizable training nationwide, in person and remotely.

WHAT COUNTS: HARNESSING DATA FOR AMERICA'S COMMUNITIES

CULTURAL VITALITY IN COMMUNITIES
This report introduces a definition of cultural vitality that includes the range of cultural activity people around the country find significant. It uses this definition as a lens to clarify our understanding of data necessary, as well as the more limited data currently available, to document arts and culture in communities in a consistent, recurrent and reliable manner. Policy and planning implications for use of the cultural vitality definition and related measures are discussed.

PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: DOES UPTOWN CULTURE STIMULATE DOWNTOWN VITALITY?
Performing arts centers have been touted as a strategy for revitalizing downtowns by increasing activities that bring in residents with higher incomes, tourists,arts employees, educated workers, and housing. Despite their popularity, civic leaders have encountered issues. This dissertation compares downtowns with and without performing arts centers.

SET IN STONE: BUILDING AMERICA'S NEW GENERATION
A report on Cultural building in the United States, particularly in regard to the landscape of cultural building, the investment determinants of cultural building, the feasibility of cultural building projects, case studies of cultural building projects, and the effects on communities in which cultural projects are built.