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Cultural Ecology, Neighborhood Vitality, and Social Wellbeing—A Philadelphia Project University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Culture and Social Wellbeing in CultureBlocks Philadelphia Philadelphia—2012-2014 12-2013 Cultural Ecology, Neighborhood Vitality, and Social Wellbeing—A Philadelphia Project Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Susan C. Seifert University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_cultureblocks Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Public Policy Commons, Social Welfare Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Stern, Mark J. and Seifert, Susan C., "Cultural Ecology, Neighborhood Vitality, and Social Wellbeing—A Philadelphia Project" (2013). CultureBlocks Philadelphia. 1. https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_cultureblocks/1 SIAP undertook this research in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund and in partnership with the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) and Department of Commerce with support by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA Our Town Program) and ArtPlace America. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_cultureblocks/1 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cultural Ecology, Neighborhood Vitality, and Social Wellbeing—A Philadelphia Project Abstract From 2011 to 2013, SIAP with Reinvestment Fund undertook new research that featured development of multidimensional indexes of social wellbeing for the city of Philadelphia. This report presents the results of that collaboration. Chapter 1 documents construction of a neighborhood-based social wellbeing index for the city. Chapter 2 uses the social wellbeing index to analyze patterns of advantage and disadvantage in Philadelphia neighborhoods. Chapter 3 draws on SIAP's historical data to examine changes in Philadelphia's cultural ecology between 1997 and 2012. The summary highlights how the policy tool helps conceptualize and measure culture as a dimension of social wellbeing as well as a contributor to equitable communities. Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Public Policy | Social Welfare | Urban Studies and Planning Comments SIAP undertook this research in collaboration with Reinvestment Fund and in partnership with the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) and Department of Commerce with support by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA Our Town Program) and ArtPlace America. This research report is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/siap_cultureblocks/1 ! ! Cultural!Ecology,!Neighborhood!Vitality,!and!Social!Wellbeing—! A!Philadelphia!Project! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ________________________________________________________________________________! CultureBlocks!Final!Research!Report! Prepared!by!the!University!of!Pennsylvania!Social!Impact!of!the!Arts!Project!(SIAP)!! with!The!Reinvestment!Fund!(TRF)! ! Submitted!to!The!Reinvestment!Fund! By!Mark!J!Stern!and!Susan!C!Seifert! University!of!Pennsylvania! December!2013! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! CultureBlocks!is!a!partnership!of!The!Reinvestment!Fund!(TRF)!and!PolicyMap;!the!City!of!Philadelphia!Office!of! Arts,!Culture!and!the!Creative!Economy!(OACCE)!and!Department!of!Commerce;!and!the!University!of!Pennsylvania,! Social!Impact!of!the!Arts!Project!(SIAP)!generously!supported!by!the!National!Endowment!for!the!Arts!(NEA)!and! ArtPlace.!!The!views!expressed!in!this!report!are!those!of!the!authors!and!do!not!necessarily!reflect!those!of!NEA!or! ArtPlace.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Social!Impact!of!the!Arts!Project! www.sp2.upenn.edu/SIAP! ! ______________________________________________________________________________! ! Stern,!Mark!J.!and!Susan!C.!Seifert.!2013.!Cultural'ecology,'neighborhood'vitality,'and' social'wellbeing—A'Philadelphia'project.!Philadelphia:!University!of!Pennsylvania,!Social! Impact!of!the!Arts!Project.! ! ! ______________________________________________________________________________________! ! Susan!C.!Seifert,!SIAP!Director! Social!Impact!of!the!Arts!Project!(SIAP)! University!of!Pennsylvania!l!School!of!Social!Policy!&!Practice! 3701!Locust!Walk!l!Philadelphia,!PA!19104O6214! [email protected]! ! CONTENTS! ! ! ! ! Introduction!…………………………………….……………………………………………………..…!!!!!!1! ! ! CultureBlocks!Working!Paper!#1!!! ! ! ! !! Culture!as!a!Dimension!of!Social!Wellbeing:!!! Development!of!a!NeighborhoodZBased!Wellbeing!! Index!for!Philadelphia!………………………………………………………………………………..….!9! Mark!J!Stern,!Ira!Goldstein,!and!Scott!Haag! ! ! CultureBlocks!Working!Paper!#2! The!Geography!of!Culture!and!Social!Wellbeing:!Patterns!of!! Advantage!and!Disadvantage!in!Philadelphia!Neighborhoods!………………………!54! Mark!J!Stern,!Susan!C!Seifert,!and!Ira!Goldstein! ! ! CultureBlocks!Working!Paper!#3! The!Changing!Contours!of!Philadelphia’s!Cultural!Ecology,!1997Z2012!……….!!!83! Mark!J!Stern!and!Susan!C!Seifert! ! ! Summary!and!Implications!!………………..…………………………………………………..!!!!!142! ! ! Introduction Over the past three years, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and ArtPlace, the Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) at the University of Pennsylvania has collaborated with The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) and the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) on the CultureBlocks project. The most visible element of the project has been the web-based cultural mapping tool that launched during the spring of 2013. Less obviously, SIAP and TRF have collaborated on a research agenda that build on the CultureBlocks’ database. This report presents the results of that research collaboration. The first two papers summarize SIAP/TRF’s endeavor to create a neighborhood-based index of social wellbeing for the city of Philadelphia. The third paper examines changes in the cultural ecology of Philadelphia between 1997 and 2010-12. A Social Wellbeing Index for Philadelphia The Social Impact of the Arts Project (SIAP) began in 1994 in response to the attention that economic impact studies were gaining at the time. We felt that these studies—in addition to their methodological flaws—captured only a fraction of the importance that the arts held for society. We committed ourselves to think through the theoretical and methodological issues involved in documenting the contribution of cultural engagement to community life. Over the years, we’ve discovered many connections between the arts and social wellbeing, some of them quite surprising. It turned out that the arts were associated with preserving ethnic and racial diversity in urban neighborhoods, lower rates of social distress, and reduced rates of ethnic and racial harassment. Perhaps most surprisingly, we found that the presence of cultural assets in urban neighborhoods was associated with economic improvements, including declines in poverty and increases in population. We used the concept of “natural” cultural districts to study neighborhoods where we found unplanned concentrations of arts organizations, cultural enterprises, resident artists, and cultural participants; and we documented how the social and civic engagement associated with the arts seemed to drive these economic benefits and revitalization. Over the past several years, we have reconceptualized our findings and their meaning for the cultural community, urban public policy, and scholarship. We were struck, on the one hand, by the debate over the instrumental versus the intrinsic value of the arts that our work and that of other scholars often provokes. On the other hand, we were uncomfortable with the tendency to view social impact as residing in individual artists and organizations rather than in the cultural ecology of neighborhoods and regions. 1 Our work on these issues has benefited from our collaboration with TRF and OACCE. One of the major inspirations for creative placemaking by the NEA Our Town program and ArtPlace has been the enhancement of livability. On a practical level, this focus is part of a strategy to link cultural funding more closely with wider initiatives of the Federal Government in the areas of sustainable development, smart growth, and transit-oriented development. To the extent that livability is a policy perspective, it is anchored in the livability principles adapted by Partnership for Sustainable Communities created in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These principles include: Provide more transportation choices. Develop safe, reliable, and economical transportation choices to decrease household transportation costs, reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote public health. Promote equitable, affordable housing. Expand location- and energy-efficient housing choices for people of all ages, incomes, races, and ethnicities to increase mobility and lower the combined cost of housing and transportation. Enhance economic competitiveness. Improve economic competitiveness through reliable and timely access to employment centers, educational opportunities, services and other basic needs by workers, as well as expanded business access to markets. Support existing communities. Target federal funding toward existing communities— through strategies like transit-oriented, mixed-use development and land recycling—to increase community revitalization and the efficiency of public works investments and safeguard rural landscapes.
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