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Informal Arts: Finding Cohesion, Capacity and Other Cultural Benefits in Unexpected Places
June 2002by: Alaka Wali, Rebecca Severson, Mario LongoniThis article discusses the importance of informal arts in creating fulfilling experiences for community members, a piece that is central to creative placemaking. -
Opportunity at the Intersection of Community Development and Creative Placemaking
Community Development Investment Review, Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2014by: Ben HechtThis article looks at how creative placemaking can encourage community development. -
Bridging Policy and Placemaking to Activate Vacant Properties: Exploring Barriers and Potential in Minneapolis
July 2017by: Kate Renn, Nicole HeymanThis report focuses on creative placemaking projects and opportunities to activate vacant properties in Minneapolis using arts and culture strategies. -
Bridging Policy and Placemaking to Activate Vacant Properties: Exploring Barriers and Potential in St. Paul
July 2017by: Kate Renn, Nicole HeymanThis report focuses on creative placemaking projects and opportunities to activate vacant properties in St. Paul using arts and culture strategies. -
Not Just Murals: Insights into Artists’ Leadership in Community Development
2017by: Anne Nicodemus, Rachel Engh, Christopher WalkerThis report explores why artists leaders are a key component of creative placemaking and community development efforts. -
Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture Can Accelerate Environmental Progress
February 2018This report focuses on how creative placemaking can help communities address environmental challenges. -
Native American Creative Placemaking
January 2018by: Evelynn ImmonenThis report explores the role of creative placemaking in Native American culture. -
Advancing One Water Through Arts and Culture: A Blueprint for Action
2018by: Danielle Mayorga, Megan Demit, Alexis FraszThis report highlights how approaching water issues through arts and culture strategies can generate solutions and activate communities. -
Lessons from The Field Reflections on Rural Placemaking
December 2017This report reflects on how creative placemaking efforts can impact rural communities. -
Creative Placemaking Case Study: North Collinwood
May 2017This report presents how creative placemaking in a Cleveland community has positively impacted residents by supporting existing cultural assets, building connections between artists and community, and implementing small-scale projects. -
Made with Love: Recipes for Community Change
2017by: Mia ScharpieThis guide provides step by step guidance for creative placemaking projects, highlighting partnerships, materials, and advice from organizers. -
Project Guide: Activating Vacancy
November 2016This guide provides a step by step process for activating communities through civic and artistic engagement. -
Creative Communities and Arts-Based Placemaking
June 2015This blog post discusses how arts-based placemaking can benefit communities. -
Meet the Entrepreneurs Creating an Arts and Culture-Based Economy in Post-Coal Appalachia
April 2017by: Alexis StephensThis blog post describes community-led creative placemaking and community development efforts in Letcher County, Kentucky. -
Can Creative Placemaking Be Used as a Tool to Build Community Resilience?
October 2017by: Frederick ZindellThis blog post highlights the role of creative placemaking in encouraging climate and cultural resilience. -
Five Steps toward Implementing Creative Placemaking
October 2017by: Juanita HardyThis blog post highlights a creative placemaking process used to develop a mixed-use complex in the District of Columbia. -
Promoting Equitable Change Through Creative Placemaking and Complete Streets
December 2017by: Nimotalai Azeez, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, Joseph CosgroveThis online training highlights how creative placemaking can transform streets into activated community spaces and encourage equitable community building. -
Creative Placemaking (Artscape)
n.d.This website highlights the benefits of creative placemaking and identifies different strategies that can be adapted to best support communities. -
ArtPlace America
n.d.This website explores the relationship between creative placemaking, community planning, and development. -
Art in Transit Program (BART)
n.d.This web page describes the efforts in the Bay Area to incorporate creative placemaking in the transit system through a request for qualifications process. -
Creative Placemaking (LISC)
n.d.This web page provides a framework for creative placemaking, including principles, impact, and resources on creative placemaking. -
Saint Paul, MN, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2019This regulation belongs to the Creative Placemaking and Historic Preservation collections. -
Gentrification and the Artistic Dividend: The Role of the Arts in Neighborhood Change
Journal of the American Planning Association, 80(1): 21-35, 2014by: Carl Grodach, Nicole Foster, James MurdochThis article explores the relationship between creative placemaking, gentrification, and displacement. -
The Scenic Route: Getting Started with Creative Placemaking and Transportation
2021This website explores how creative placemaking can be incorporated into transportation and land use processes to support building meaningful places. -
Assessing a Set of Indicators for Creative Placemaking: Reflections from the Field
Community Development Investment Review, Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2014by: Elaine Morley, Mary WinklerThis article explores the challenges related to identifying effective indicators for creative placemaking projects. -
Field Guide for Creative Placemaking and Parks
2017by: Matthew ClarkeThis guide explores how creative placemaking encourages parks and open spaces that serve communities. -
Cleveland, OH, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2021These regulations belong to the Creative Placemaking, Food Systems, Food Trucks, Urban Agriculture, Urban Livestock, and Wind Energy collections. -
Implementing Creative Placemaking in Real Estate
2016This factsheet focuses on the relationship between creative placemaking and real estate. -
Detroit, MI, A Placemaking Vision for Downtown Detroit
2013The city’s downtown plan outlines how placemaking strategies to strengthen public spaces and incorporates creative placemaking to support arts and culture. -
Creative Placemaking: Working Through Conflicting Priorities
2018by: Frederick Zindell, Mia ScharphieThis online training explores how creative placemaking and resilience projects can address pressing community needs. -
Raleigh, NC, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Updated November 2019This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, Outdoor Lighting, and Social Equity collections. -
San Francisco, CA, Muncipal Code
Updated June 2022This regulation belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Biophilic Planning, Climate Change, Creative Placemaking, Green Building, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW, and Solar Energy collections. -
Sanford, FL, Code of Ordinances
2017This administrative code belongs in the Creative Placemaking, Housing Supply Planning, and Residential Infill Development collections. -
Bloomington, MN, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2019This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Creative Placemaking, Green Building, and Housing Supply Planning collections. -
Seattle, WA, Seattle 2035
Updated December 2018This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Age-Friendly Communities, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, Neighborhood Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Madison, WI, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2023This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Creative Placemaking, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Housing Supply Planning, Outdoor Lighting, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from Four Cities
July 2018by: Chelsea Allinger, Rachel Engh, Susan Fitter HarrisThis report explores on how creative placemaking can help revitalize communities with vacant properties. -
Cleveland, OH, Connecting Cleveland 2020 Citywide Plan
July 2007The city's comprehensive plan includes an arts and culture chapter that discusses the importance of creative placemaking in improving livability. -
Nashville-Davidson County, TN, Nashville Next Comprehensive Plan
Adopted June 2015This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Built Environment and Health, Complete Streets, Creative Placemaking, Housing Supply Planning, and Residential Infill Development collections. -
Austin, TX, Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan
Updated June 2018This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Biophilic Planning, Built Environment and Health, Creative Placemaking, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, and Solar Energy collections. -
Seattle, WA, Municipal Code
Updated April 2025This regulation belongs to 22 different Research KnowledgeBase collections, ranging from Accessory Dwelling Units to Youth in Planning. -
ARC, GA, The Atlanta Region’s Plan
Updated February 2020This comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Autonomous Vehicles, Built Environment and Health, Creative Placemaking, Scenario Planning, and Environmentally Sensitive Areas collections. -
Arts and Culture Planning: A Toolkit for Communities
2014This guide explores methods for successful arts and culture planning in local communities. -
Perth Amboy, NJ, Creative Perth Amboy
November 2015This functional plan focuses on strategies to support existing character through creative placemaking. -
A Place for Placemaking in San Diego
2017by: Kathleen Ferrier, Joe CosgroveThis report provides examples of creative placemaking and recommends approaches to support community-led creative placemaking efforts. -
Placemaking and Social Equity: Expanding the Framework of Creative Placemaking
Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2014by: Debra WebbThis article discusses how creative placemaking efforts can expand to promote civic engagement and social change. -
Creative Policymaking: Taking the Lessons of Creative Placemaking to Scale
Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume, Issue 2, 2017by: Kiley ArroyoThis article focuses on how creative placemaking can encourage participatory policymaking. -
RPA, The Fourth Regional Plan
Adopted November 2017This comprehensive plan belongs to the Creative Placemaking and Social Equity collections. -
Creative Placemaking Ohio
2017This online training discusses a creative placemaking initiative in Ohio, featuring perspectives from a variety of community stakeholders, including planners, community developers, and artists. -
Creative Placemaking / Art in Place Initiative
2026This clearinghouse provides creative placemaking resources from Urban Land Institute and partners.