Interested in how to implement creative placemaking in your community? Explore the resources below.

Creative Placemaking in Urban Land Magazine

– As Art Revitalizes Urban Neighborhoods, Maintaining Affordability Remains a Challenge (Nicole Martinez, 2/14/18)

– 5 Steps toward Implementing Creative Placemaking (Juanita Hardy, 10/19/17)

– 10 Best Practices for Creative Placemaking (Juanita Hardy, 4/26/17)

– Millennial Preferences are Good News for Mixed Use Development (Kathleen McCormick, 3/29/17)

– Placemaking for Mid-Sized Cities: Rebuilding Waterfront Parks and Bourbonism (Patrick J. Kiger, 10/31/16)

– Growing Value through Creative Placemaking (Juanita Hardy, 10/11/16)

– Creative Placemaking’s Positive Impact on Community Development  (Michael Hoban, 5/31/16)

– Drawing People In: Placemaking and the Density Discussion (Kevin Brass, 2/29/16)

– Creative Placemaking: Turning Urban Open Space into a Cultural Asset (Camilla McLaughlin, 11/2/15)

– Supporting Culture-Based Placemaking with NEA Grants (Leslie Braunstein, 11/25/13)

Creative Placemaking Programs in District Councils

• ULI Washington, Leadership Institute, Day 6: Placemaking and Design, February 2018
• ULI Charlotte, Implementing Creative Placemaking in Real Estate, January 2018
• ULI San Antonio, Creative Placemaking and Activate Houston Street Charrette, January 2018
• ULI North Florida, Creative Placemaking, Parks and Public Spaces in Tallahassee, FL, September 2017
• ULI Central Florida, Implementing Creative Placemaking in Real Estate in Orlando, FL, August 2017
• ULI Triangle: Recap: Workshop on Creative Placemaking in Raleigh, 8/30/2017
• ULI Michigan: Report: Workshop on Creative Placemaking in Detroit, 8/25/2017
• ULI Los Angeles: Development without Displacement: ULI Urban Marketplace, 5/1/17
• ULI & ULI Northwest: Interactive Map and Guide for Creative Placemaking in Seattle, 5/1/17
• ULI Washington: Curating Stronger Community through Intentional Placemaking, 4/25/17
• ULI Virginia: Tom Tom Festival Hometown Summit, 4/14/17
• ULI South Carolina: South Carolina Rural Summit, 4/06/17
• ULI Sacramento: Art Street Lunch and Tour, 2/9/17
• ULI New York and WLI: Creating Spaces for Creative People: Strategies for Developing Real Estate for Artists, 1/24/17
• ULI South Carolina: The Next Arts and Culture Frontier for Greenville, 5/6/2016
• ULI Indiana: Crafting a Cultural District Amidst Suburban Sprawl, 2/25/16
• ULI SE Florida/Caribbean: Miami’s Evolution through Art, Architecture and Culture, 1/21/16

Recommended Reading

• Farther, Faster, Together: How Arts and Culture Can Accelerate Environmental Progress (ArtPlace America, 2018)
• Building Equitable Cities:  How to Drive Economic Mobility and Regional Growth (Janis Bowdler, Henry Cisneros, Jeffrey Lubell, with a forward by Patrick L. Phillips, 2018)
• Arts, Culture and Transportation – A Creative Placemaking Field Scan (Ben Stone, Transportation for America, 2017)
• The Field Guide on Parks and Creative Placemaking (The Trust for Public Land, 2017)
• Community Collaboration to Enable Creative Placemaking (Betsy del Monte, 2017)
• How to Kill a City:  Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Peter Moskowitz, 2017)
• The Steady Destruction of America’s Cities (Gillian White, Book Review, 2017)
• How to Do Creative Placemaking (National Endowment for the Arts, 2017)
• The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America’s Communities (Stephanie Meeks and Kevin Murphy, 2016)
• The Well-Tempered City (Jonathan Rose, 2016)
• Community Development Investment Review: Creative Placemaking (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2014)
• For the Love of Cities (Peter Kageyama, 2011)
• Creative Placemaking White Paper (Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa, 2010)