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| Id | 201 | |
| Author | Stern, M., J.; Seifert, S., C. | |
| Title | Cultural Clusters: The Implications of Cultural Assets Agglomeration for Neighborhood Revitalization | |
| Reference | Stern, M.J., Seifert, S.C. (2010). Cultural Clusters: The Implications of Cultural Assets Agglomeration for Neighborhood Revitalization. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 29(3), 262‑279. |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0739456X09358555 |
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| Abstract | Cultural districts have attracted increased attention as an urban economic development strategy. Yet for the most part, cities have focused on the agglomeration of cultural assets to increase tourism or lure wary suburbanites downtown. This article examines an alternative use of the arts for community development: cultivating neighborhood cultural clusters with modest concentrations of cultural providers (both nonprofit and commercial), resident artists, and cultural participants. The article presents innovative methods for integrating data on these indicators into a geographic information system to produce a Cultural Asset Index that can be used to identify census block groups with the highest density of these assets. The article then demonstrates the association between the concentration of cultural assets in Philadelphia in 1997 with improved housing market conditions between 2001 and 2006. The article concludes by exploring the implications of a neighborhood-based creative economy for urban policy, planning, and research. |
Cultural districts have attracted increased attention as an urban economic development strategy. in contrast to the economic impact assessment of particular projects neighborhood economic impact studies have adopted a more ecological approach. more typical is a place like norris square in philadelphias kensington neighborhood where community activism to reclaim a park at the center of local drug tradethrough the integration of community gar- dens cultural heritage and public arthas spurred higher levels of community building and civic engagement. in the absence of a compelling case for the direct eco- nomic impact of cultural assets agglomerations we are inclined to believe that the answer to this riddle lies in the impact of cultural production and participation on other neighborhood-level social processes. first we suggest that the social impact of the arts pro- gram methodology used in this article which combines information on a number of dimensions of cultural engage- ment in a geographic database allows planners to integrate information on cultural activity with the types of data more commonly used in community and economic development analysis.
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