Creative Placemaking: Rethinking the Role of Arts & Culture in Strengthening Communities

This resource is an address to the League of Historic American Theatres conference, in Minneapolis by Rip Rapson, the Chair of the Kresge Foundation. He talks about the Foundation’s particular conception of creative placemaking as being fueled by their belief that a powerful synergy emerges when you marry it to a focus on urban opportunity – that arts and cultural activities belong front and center in efforts to revitalize and re-imagine some of America’s most disinvested places.