Creative Placemaking

This issue of the
Community Development Investment Review
explores creative placemaking:
what it is, how it’s done, how it’s measured, funded, and experienced.

Creative placemakers use the arts to "activate" places: storefronts, trails,
abandoned railways, town centers, and main streets. As Jamie Bennett, executive director of
ArtPlace America, writes in this issue: "In creative placemaking, ‘creative’ is an adverb describing
the making, not an adjective describing the place. Successful creative placemaking is not be
quantified by how many new arts centers, galleries, or cultural districts are built. Rather, its
success is measured in the ways artists, formal and informal arts spaces, and creative interven
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tions contribute toward community outcomes."

Full Story: http://www.frbsf.org/community-development/files/cdir-10-02-creative-placemaking.pdf