What the Arts Add to Our Communities
The public-private partnership ArtPlace, which provides financial support to arts projects that revitalize and strengthen neighborhoods, towns and cities, is doing very promising work. Here's an very fast-moving and well-produced video highlighting the collaborative's work in 2011 and looking forward to the grant assistance just announced for 2012. Enjoy:
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.
Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America coalition, and author of several books on cities, smart growth and sprawl.
Watch for Kaid’s forthcoming book,
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