Americas Top Artplaces
America’s Top ArtPlaces 2013 America’s Top 12 ArtPlaces Art is inspiring and motivating. But it is also a powerful catalyst for The selection of these neighborhoods was based on a set of six indicators. change within communities, invigorating neighborhoods, supporting Four indicators measure the ingredients of vibrancy: the number of local businesses, and creating vibrant places where people want to be. retail and service businesses, the percentage of independent businesses, ArtPlace, a collaboration of leading national and regional foundations, the neighborhood’s Walk Score and the percentage of workers in banks and federal agencies, was founded to accelerate “creative creative occupations living in the neighborhood. Then two arts-related placemaking” – that is, putting art at the heart of a portfolio of strategies indicators were added: the number of arts-related non-profits and to revitalize communities in ways nothing else quite can. the number of arts-related businesses. Inside are profiles of the first-ever list of America’s Top ArtPlaces. Finally, neighborhood scores were normalized for family income, so that neighborhoods with the highest concentration of income did Twelve neighborhoods across the country were identified by ArtPlace not skew the results. as most successfully combining art, artists and other creatives, independent businesses, retail shops and restaurants, and walkability The results are 12 exciting, and sometimes surprising, neighborhoods – to make vibrant places. all unique, all deeply local, all relatively recent comeback stories with art at their heart. America’s Top ArtPlaces demonstrate how art and artists are creating the kinds of places people want to be. America’s Top 12 ArtPlaces (in alphabetical order, not ranked) Inside, you’ll get a look at what Brooklyn, NY Oakland, CA makes these communities The intersection of Downtown, Downtown, including Chinatown, America’s Top 12 ArtPlaces.
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