Fuzzy vibrancy: Creative placemaking as ascendant US cultural policy

Cultural Trends

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 213-222

  Nicodemus, Anne Gadwa ^a  

^a Metris Arts Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

arts economic development; creative economy; creative placemaking; cultural planning; cultural policy; culture led regeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884498976     PISSN: 09548963     EISSN: 14693690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09548963.2013.817653     Document Type: Note

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