Creative Placemaking

from Urban Land Institute

 Report Summary: Creative placemaking, or leveraging art and culture in tandem with great design, is a proven accelerator for real estate development projects. It creates a distinctive sense of place—culturally rich, engaging, and economically thriving—and attracts people. Creative placemaking can have a meaningful positive impact in low-income neighborhoods, along distressed commercial corridors, in struggling rural areas, and in other disinvested communities. As importantly, creative placemaking has been demonstrated to be a successful development strategy for many solutions in the built environment, including health, housing, transportation, and resilience, among others.