Creative Placemaking

This article explores the relationship between creative placemaking, gentrification, and displacement. It compares fine arts and commercial arts activity in metropolitan areas with neighborhood variables used to identify gentrification and neighborhood revitalization in 100 metropolitan statistical areas. It finds that fine arts and commercial arts industries are associated with different types of neighborhoods and levels of neighborhood change. It concludes by recommending that planners should consider how different forms of arts-based development impact neighborhoods and stresses the importance of identifying techniques to mitigate displacement of residents and businesses.