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"The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners' "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice. Cultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. Cultural planners need to up their game and enriching their own and city planners' cultural competencies is only one step. Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. This will be an important resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of city and cultural planning, as well as municipal policy makers of all stripes"--

The formation of arts and cultural districts or clusters may be organic or planned(or a hybrid) but they often result in dislocation of those outside the district'sdominant cultural group or those without escalating economic capacity. Somedistricts primarily serve real estate development interests; some propel local artists and creative enterprises; some protect space for community cultural expression and make life better for existing residents. Few can mix more than one ofthese purposes but for a short time. This paper reviews six cultural districts inthe United States, each at a different stage of a development continuum. In somecases district formation stabilizes a community, others transform or de-stabilize acommunity. Winners and losers are generally evident. The mix of local conditions,leadership, and policy choices determine their trajectory. Whether they evolve inways that foster civic engagement and accrue political capital among a wide rangeof stakeholders determines the winners and losers.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Contents Curated by Topics -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Editors -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: What really matters : moving placemaking into a new epoch -- What is placemaking? -- Placemaking as a community of practice? -- The next placemaking epoch -- References -- Further reading in this volume -- Section 1 History and theory of placemaking -- Preface: Placemaking in the age of COVID-19 and protest -- What we learn from this chapter -- What's next? -- Reference -- Further reading in this volume -- Chapter 2 Placemaking as an economic engine for all -- Introduction -- How we got here -- Rebuilding the strength of urban settlements through innovative, multi-pronged investment strategies -- How 'place' drives productivity and shifts the geography of innovation -- Place-oriented development: how parks and open space enhance real estate value -- Pre-emptive efforts to keep places open and accessible -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading in this volume -- Chapter 3 An annotated history of creative placemaking at the federal level -- Introduction -- Responding to the Great Recession -- Seeding creative placemaking with federal and philanthropic funding -- Our Town: NEA funding for local pilot projects -- Making creative placemaking projects legible -- Investing in knowledge-building and network organizations -- Accelerating community capacity to support local work -- Reflecting on a decade of federal investment in creative placemaking -- References -- Further reading in this volume -- Chapter 4 A future of creative placemaking -- Introduction -- The future -- Imagining and remembering -- Advancing equity -- Building relationships -- Fostering cross-sector collaboration.