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Topic: Arts Environments: Cultural Districts
Cultural districts are generally defined as geographic areas of a city where there is a high concentration of cultural facilities, arts organizations, individual artists and arts-based businesses. They are mixed-use developments that incorporate other facilities such as office complexes, restaurants, retail spaces, and occasionally residential areas. The United States is home to more than 100 arts and cultural districts.
Cultural districts involve long-term vision, planning, and commitment and should capitalize on regional assets that are specific to the cultural, economic, and social issues of the community. They require careful coordination among varied stakeholders and may require specialized management to be developed and maintained.
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Americans for the Arts Resources (1) more
News Articles (75) more
- Arts groups creating ways to lure young audiences
Young professionals don't get their information through traditional media, and they might need an extra push to get them inside area theaters.
- Sports, arts groups vie to win tax cash
A proposal to increase the county's tourism tax moved forward Monday with plans for county officials to start figuring out how the extra revenues could be divided between a new performing-arts center at Lake-Sumter Community College and several other building projects.
- Culture in a crisis
With two of the Grand Valley's (CO) major cultural organizations now on the ropes, political and civic leaders are floating the idea of a tax to benefit the organizations.
Project Profile (28) more
- South Bronx Cultural Corridor
The South Bronx Cultural Corridor is a catalyst for fostering creativity through a network of community support, maintaining a strong creative presence in the neighborhood, and branding the neighborhood with cultural vibrancy for both residents and visitors.
- The Dallas Arts Learning Initiative
The Dallas Arts Learning Initiative – a partnership between the city, the district, the Wallace Foundation and Big Thought – is infusing more arts into the city, one school and neighborhood at a time. By 2009, the plan is to offer every Dallas Independent School District elementary school student 45 minutes of art and music instruction each week. And that's only a fraction of what they hope to accomplish.
- Station North Arts District – Baltimore, MD
"The Station North Arts & Entertainment District offers a remarkable blend of underground, independent, and mainstream performing arts and popular culture, along with a wealth of minority and ethnic influences in entertainment, food, and the arts."
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Sample Documents (2) more
- Historic Warehouse Arts District Master Plan
The Tucson Historic Warehouse Arts District
Master Plan is the product of an intensive community
planning effort in downtown Tucson in
2003 and 2004. The plan grows out of the
existing community of artists, arts organizations,
and public officials dedicated to preserving and
growing this thriving and productive arts district.
This plan’s goal is to develop the Tucson
Historic Warehouse Arts District as a center
for incubation, production and exhibition of
the arts, with artists at its heart. The plan
sub-goals include: mixed-use, diversity, realistic
economics, sustainability, neighborliness, historic
preservation, safety, conversion of surface
parking lots to compatible arts-related uses,
pedestrian and bicycle-friendliness, reduced
pass-through automobile traffic, public parking
and resolution of environmental problems.
- Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission - Regional Cultural Business Plan
A strategic business plan, based on current research data, designed to address the needs and issues facing arts and cultural organizations and constituents in the Sacramento Metropolitan area.
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