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Community Development Innovation Review

The Community Development Innovation Review focuses on bridging the gap between theory and practice, from as many viewpoints as possible. The goal of this journal is to promote cross-sector dialogue around a range of emerging issues and related investments that advance economic resilience and mobility for low- and moderate-income communities.

  • Seeding Civic Engagement

    Tracy Taft, International Sonoran Desert Alliance; Jim Lasko, Redmoon Theater; Julia Taylor, Greater Milwaukee Committee; Lori Lobenstine, Design Studio for Social Intervention

    Profiles four creative placemaking projects that have seeded civic engagement: Sonoran Desert Retreat Center and Residences; Great Chicago Fire Festival; and Creative Trails at the ARTery.

  • Creative Placemaking in Community Planning and Development: An Introduction to ArtPlace America

    Jamie Bennett, ArtPlace America

    Explains the framework ArtPlace America uses to evaluate creative placemaking initiatives and introduces the 16 ArtPlace grantee projects subsequently profiled.

  • Strengthening Economic Development

    Jodi Farrell, Adrianne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts; Ana Morgenstern, University of Miami; Michael Forsyth, REVOLVE; Laura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts; Kimberly Driggins, DC Office of Planning

    Profiles four creative placemaking projects that strengthened economic development: Town Square Anchor for a Changing Skyline; REVOLVE Detroit; Irrigate; and Arts and Culture Temporiums.

  • Arts and Culture in Detroit: Central to Our Past and Our Future

    Rip Rapson, Kresge Foundation

    Recounts the efforts of a broad partnership of civic and private institutions to preserve Detroit’s arts legacy and expand it for the future.

  • Our Town: Supporting the Arts in Communities Throughout the United States

    Jane Chu and Jason Schupbach, National Endowment for the Arts

    Profiles the Our Town program and other creative placemaking initiatives supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

  • Financing Creative Places

    Gary Hattem, Deutsche Bank

    Envisions the marriage of community development with local cultural organizations similar to the successful partnerships that Deutsche Bank has helped to support in New York City.

  • Assessing a Set of Indicators for Creative Placemaking: Reflections From the Field

    Elaine Morley, Urban Institute; Mary K. Winkler, Urban Institute

    Along with the interest and growth in creative placemaking is a concomitant interest in measuring and communicating accomplishments of those efforts and sharing good practices among creative placemaking practitioners.

  • Creative Placemaking: How to Do It Well

    Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota; Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Metris Arts Consulting

    Reflects on the origins of creative placemaking and how it has evolved in practice over the last four years.

  • Opportunity at the Intersection of Community Development and Creative Placemaking

    Ben Hecht, Living Cities

    A blueprint exploring the main themes in this issue of the Community Development Investment Review.

  • Measuring the Economic and Social Impacts of Cultural Organizations

    Stephen Sheppard, Williams College

    In measuring the impact of cultural organizations, there are at least three possible types of impact that should be the focus of our efforts: their economic impact, their impact on wellbeing, and their impact on local social networks.