What Does "Creative Placemaking" Look Like?
ArtPlace is an unusual collaboration of foundations, banks and federal agencies including the NEA and HUD. In 2011, they awarded $11 million in grants to 34 "creative placemaking" projects, which they define as "putting art and culture at the heart of a portfolio of integrated strategies that can drive vibrancy and diversity so powerful that it transforms communities."
"Creative placemaking can be found in the Lunar New Year parade that The Wing Luke Asian Museum brought out into the streets of Seattle's ailing International District, and in the vision for a new town square for Miami based around the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts," explains the ArtPlace blog entry.
This video shows some of the work they've funded in the past year:
- Austin, Texas Shows the Way to Plan and Design Transit Oriented Development
- The Sweet Smell of Density? Subconscious Influences on Perceptions of Urban Form
- $1.5 Billion in BUILD Grants Announced
- Where Campus Planning Meets Urban Planning
- All of L.A.'s Rail Lines Will Get New Names
- Thumbs Down to Planning Rules of Thumb
- Trump Administration Gives 'Opportunity Zones' a Push Forward
- Putting a Bow on Top of the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- The Future of the Retail Landscape
- Songs About Places - 2018
- Pittsburgh's New Housing Opportunity Fund in Action
- After East Boston Toll Booths Were Automated, Some Miss the Old Way
- Proposed Law Would Empower Section 8 Voucher Users
- San Diego Water Recycling Project Receives Critical EPA Loan
- Oregon to Consider Statewide Ban of SIngle-Family Zoning
- Downtown St. Paul Loop Back in the Gold Line BRT Plan
- EU Commission 'License to Pollute' overturned by top European court
- Friday Eye Candy: A Cartoon Explains the State of U.S. Public Transit
- Athens Fights Rising Temperatures
- $7.5 Billion Regional Transit Plan Revealed in Houston
