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.

CULTURE MAPPING 90404
Facilitated by 18th Street Arts Center, Culture Mapping 90404 is a community produced map highlighting the history and cultural assets of the Pico neighborhood. Cultural assets are people, places, events and organizations, both past and present, that serve as cultural anchors within this community. In collaboration with the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, they have trained community volunteers to document cultural resources, memories, and histories in the Pico neighborhood of Santa Monica. ACTA has a successful record of creating culturally sensitive and meaningful cultural asset maps with diverse communities across Southern California.

DESIGN FOR IMPACT
This booklet documents Enterprise’s beta test of an interdisciplinary outcomes-based design methodology, and illustrates how the process can strengthen design interventions at multiple scales and for specific, targeted purposes.

FROM CREATIVE ECONOMY TO CREATIVE SOCIETY
Urban policy-makers generally agree that regional economic development and job growth are the solution to urban poverty and its associated blight and pathology. The creative economy is one of today’s most popular remedies for ailing cities. What is the creative economy?

FUZZY CONCEPTS, PROXY DATA: WHY INDICATORS WON'T TRACK CREATIVE PLACEMAKING SUCCESS
Ann Markusen, one of creative placemaking's original champions explains why she can't get behind the field's latest measurement efforts.

MAKING SENSE OF MEANING: HOW CREATIVE DOCUMENTATION ENHANCES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The effort to document and research the Community Development Investments initiative grew up alongside the program itself, and the analytical approach reflects a balance between conveying the unique features of six distinct experiences and producing lessons of broader relevance to various fields of practice. This essay describes the ways in which the PolicyLink team, in close consultation with ArtPlace America, the grantees of the program, and a number of advisors, created and carried out an approach that was suited to the unique features and dimensions of the initiative.