Arts, Culture & Creativity

As part of a collaborative project with the RMC Corporation and with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, APA's Planning and Community Health Research Center is developing a series of briefing papers to illustrate how planners use arts and culture strategies to achieve economic, social, environmental, and community goals.

The briefing papers will provide a comprehensive definition and overview of the arts, culture, and creativity field and explore four topic areas:

• community engagement and participation
• community pride
• economic development
• cultural values, heritage and history

This framework will help support the work of policymakers, planners, and economic development and community development professionals, as well as professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, arts, culture, and creativity in the creation and development of healthy communities.

Survey on the Arts, Culture, and Creativity in Planning Practice

Deadline: July 19, 2009

The American Planning Association is conducting a survey to determine where and how planners use artistic, cultural, or creative strategies (such as festivals, painting, storytelling, photography, electronic media, formal and informal arts exhibits, performances, etc.) in the planning process and to achieve social, economic, environmental, and community goals. We are looking for cases and examples to illustrate these strategies. 

APA invites you to visit http://tinyurl.com/artsculture-planning to take the survey. We estimate that the survey will take you no more than 15 minutes to fill out. 

Survey results will help inform practicing planners, policy makers, economic development and community development professionals, and urban designers about the role of arts, culture, and creativity in planning practice.  

Questions?

Contact Kimberley Hodgson at khodgson@planning.org.