VAA Topics: Creative Placemaking

Catalog description

Traditional community planning and development has not always created equitable, healthy and sustainable communities. Arts and culture bring new tools and strategies to place-based community development. The emerging field of creative placemaking utilizes arts and culture to approach community planning and development. This course will focus on arts and culture in community planning and development across the United States – in both rural and urban communities. It will explore questions around the what, why, how, when and who of creative placemaking practice.