Creative placemaking uses arts and cultural expression to create or rejuvenate parks and open spaces. This cooperative, community-based process deepens a sense of place and inspires community pride.
This guide is intended to connect creative placemaking with parks and open spaces. It answers two important questions:
- What is creative placemaking?
- How does creative placemaking make for better parks and stronger communities?
The Field Guide shows how creative placemaking can:
- Strengthen the role of parks and open space as an integrated part of comprehensive community development.
- Advance arts and culturally-based approaches to all phases of park-making, thereby creating social connections within and between communities.
- Foreground the role of parks as cultural products and important sites for civic gatherings and activity.
- Foster innovation, design excellence, and beauty in community parks and open spaces.
The Field Guide includes two sections:
- A “how-to” guide for strategizing and implementing a park-based creative placemaking project
- 11 Case studies that demonstrate the breadth of this kind of community development
