Arts and culture strategies help to reveal and enhance the underlying identity - the unique meaning, value, and character - of the physical and social form of a community. This identity is reflected through the community’s character or sense of place. A community’s sense of place is not a static concept; rather, it evolves and develops over time, reflecting the spectrum of social values within and around the community. In this way, the community character of a city, county, town, or neighborhood can be seen as a story or narrative of a place.
Planners and community members can come together to reveal and burnish this narrative through:
Awareness of community identity and character is strengthened by the consideration of all community interests in decision-making processes; the integration of arts and cultural resources with civic visioning programs; and the balancing of the inherent conflicting nature of past, present, and future social values.
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Keywords
Locations:
Beyond Europe ,North America Thematic scope:
Artistic Practice ,Arts Management & Entrepreneurship ,Cultural Policy & Administration Languages:
English Type of publication:
Report ,Research ,Viewpoint Tagged as:
arts and cultural strategies, local cultural strategies, olcal resources, strategies and communities
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