These documents define Creative Placemaking and relay some issues that relate to it. The authors outline how arts administrators can promote creative placemaking projects to attract people to their cities.
Americans for the Arts has commissioned five essays spanning the intricacies of arts, entertainment, and cultural districts specifically for policymakers, arts leaders, planning professionals, community development practitioners, and others who are interested in developing new districts or adapting existing ones.
This article investigates the problem arising from the delivery of culture to an uncontrolled, unlimited increase in tourism. In order to understand the historic roots and forces that brought modern tourism to its present stage, which has ended up reversing the actual benefits of tourism into devastation, the following section briefly discusses tourism within the history of travelling, and then proceeds to discuss it as the act of selling the foreign. Throughout the discussion, the paper will query the notion of commercialising culture. From a historical perspective cultural activities can...
This article examines local politics, racial attitudes, and public art standards in Richmond, VA, through the lens of a case study- the erection of the Arthur Ashe statue on Monument Avenue.
This 24 page booklet was published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1998.
There are more reasons to visit New York City and its surrounding region than almost anywhere else in the world. This region boasts an amazing diversity of attractions as it is a global center for the arts, entertainment, business, and retailing and home to many of the country's most important historic landmarks and other sightseeing attractions. Visitors are supported by a vast network of businesses, including nearly 70,000 hotel rooms and 25,000 restaurants in the City alone.
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