University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Culture and Social Wellbeing in New York City Social Impact of the Arts Project 3-2017 The oS cial Wellbeing of New York City's Neighborhoods: The onC tribution of Culture and the Arts Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_culture_nyc Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Public Policy Commons, Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Stern, Mark J. and Seifert, Susan C., "The ocS ial Wellbeing of New York City's Neighborhoods: The onC tribution of Culture and the Arts" (2017). Culture and Social Wellbeing in New York City. 1. https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_culture_nyc/1 The ulturC e and Social Wellbeing in New York City project was undertaken in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund, a community development financial institution, with support by the Surdna Foundation, the NYC Cultural Agenda Fund in the New York Community Trust, and the University of Pennsylvania. The er search was conducted between 2014 and 2017. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_culture_nyc/1 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The oS cial Wellbeing of New York City's Neighborhoods: The Contribution of Culture and the Arts Abstract This research report presents the conceptual framework, data and methodology, findings and implications of a three-year study of the relationship of cultural ecology to social wellbeing across New York City neighborhoods. The et am gathered data from City agencies, borough arts councils, and cultural practitioners to develop a 10-dimension social wellbeing framework—beginning with construction of a cultural asset index—for every neighborhood in the City’s five boroughs.