Cultural Development in Creative Communities

by Bill Bulick with Carol Coletta, Colin Jackson, Andrew Taylor, and Steven Wolff.

The spectacular success of Richard Florida’s book, The Rise of the Creative Class, has yielded a tremendous opportunity for the cultural sector. Civic leaders around the country are rushing to develop new economic development strategies that build creative capital, and many are taking a fresh look at how cultural development contributes to authentic, vibrant, creative—and economically successful—communities.

In addition to specific cultural development and planning practices shared, this short piece offers thought-provoking insights and challenges to all of us in the field of Community Arts. More>>, a program of Americans for the Arts.