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  • How Arts and Cultural Strategies Enhance Community Engagement and Participation

    Arts and Culture Briefing Papers 4
    by: Kelly Beavers, Kimberley Hodgson       March 01, 2011
    Community engagement is the process of public participation and involvement that promotes relationship building through learning, action, and the expression of needs and values. Community engagement can bring vibrancy and innovation to planning practice by strengthening the degree of public commitment to planning processes and making more perspectives available to decision makers.
  • How the Arts and Cultural Sector Strengthen Cultural Values and Preserve Heritage and History

    Arts and Culture Briefing Papers 2
    by: Kimberley Hodgson, Kelly Beavers       March 01, 2011
    One sign of a healthy community is its simultaneous ability to preserve and invent its culture — that is, to conserve its history and heritage while developing new expressions for current times.
  • How Arts and Cultural Strategies Create, Reinforce, and Enhance Sense of Place

    Arts and Culture Briefing Papers 3
    by: Jeffrey Soule, FAICP, Kimberley Hodgson, Kelly Beavers       March 01, 2011
    Arts and culture strategies help to reveal and enhance the underlying identity — the unique meaning, value, and character — of the physical and social form of a community. This identity is reflected through the community's character or sense of place.
  • The Role of the Arts and Culture in Planning Practice

    Arts and Culture Briefing Papers 1
    by: Kimberley Hodgson, Kelly Beavers       March 01, 2011
    This paper provides planners and policy makers with comprehensive definitions, an overview of the arts and culture field, and a framework for how the field’s strategies can enhance and inform planning practice.
  • How the Arts and Culture Sector Catalyzes Economic Vitality

    Arts and Culture Briefing Papers 5
    by: Mary Dwyer, Kelly Beavers, Kimberley Hodgson       March 01, 2011
    Terms such as "creative economy," "creative class," and "cultural economy" are becoming more common among urban planners, arts administrators, economic developers, and business and municipal leaders. Whatever label is used, this use of terminology linking culture and the economy indicates recognition of the connections among the fields of planning, economic development, and arts and culture.

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