Creative Placemaking: Connecting Community Development and the Arts


Artists and cultural institutions have an important role to play in neighborhood social and economic vitality. As community developers consider how best to reimagine space they can and should look to the arts to help create place.

This work, otherwise known as “creative placemaking,” is beginning to take shape across the country. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pleased to dedicate Volume 10, Issue 2 of the Community Development Investment Review to this emerging work. On Wednesday, January 14, we hosted a launch event featuring conversations with leaders in the creative placemaking field.