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Cultivating "Natural" Cultural Districts

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Title: Cultivating "Natural" Cultural Districts
Author: Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
Author Organization: University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice
Publication Date: Oct 1, 2007
Publication File: NaturalCulturalDistricts.oct07.pdf

Can the arts and culture play a central role in revitalizing American cities? Over the past decade, a number of cities have answered this question affirmatively. For the most part, they have turned to big-ticket downtown cultural districts as the strategy to expand their “creative economy.” At the same time, skeptics like Joel Kotkin have ridiculed this approach as the creation of “the ephemeral city” that ignores the fundamentals of good city-building for the illusion of urban vitality.

Filed Under: creative class Social Impact of the Arts Project

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