CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: FOR WHOM BY WHOM
“For Whom, By Whom” chronicles how creative placemaking can expand opportunities for low-income people living in disinvested communities. These stories give lie to the false narrative that such neighborhoods are home to violence and deprivation instead of talent, imagination and solutions. Here are communities that produce incredible feats despite being terminally under-resourced, and despite systemic neglect that has persisted for generations.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: RETHINKING THE ROLE OF ARTS & CULTURE IN STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES
This resource is an address to the League of Historic American Theatres conference, in Minneapolis by Rip Rapson, the Chair of the Kresge Foundation. He talks about the Foundation’s particular conception of creative placemaking as being fueled by their belief that a powerful synergy emerges when you marry it to a focus on urban opportunity – that arts and cultural activities belong front and center in efforts to revitalize and re-imagine some of America’s most disinvested places.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING: SPARKING DEVELOPMENT WITH ARTS AND CULTURE
This publication presents the business case and process for successful creative placemaking as a potent strategy for building healthy, equitable, attractive, and thriving communities. It offers insights about how creative placemaking—leveraging arts and culture—can spark a creative culture in real estate projects, revitalize communities, and boost financial and other return on investment (ROI) measures for developers. It also provides best practices—information gleaned from research gathered from ULI leaders and others—about how to plan, finance, implement, and manage projects. And it offers examples and case studies illustrating successful creative placemaking across diverse project types and in U.S. cities of various sizes, economic conditions, and geographic locations.

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING? WHAT IS IT THAT YOU DO?
Jamie Bennett, Executive Director, explains the work of ArtPlace America and Creative Placemaking.

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.

EXPLORING OUR TOWN
This is a hub of resources from the NEA showing how creative placemaking projects strategically link communities and local governments with artists, designers, and arts organizations to improve quality of life, create a sense of place, and revitalize local economies.