THE SCENIC ROUTE

Getting Started with Creative Placemaking

  • Getting Started with this Guide

    Getting started with creative placemaking in transportation? Begin here with a short introduction from our director and information about how to use this guide.

  • What is Creative Placemaking?

    It’s an approach that deeply engages the arts, culture, and creativity in planning and designing transportation projects to better reflect and celebrate local culture, heritage and values.

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Identify the Community’s Assets and Strengths

Identifying the existing arts and cultural assets provides local leaders with invaluable opportunities to build powerful relationships in the community that have benefits for everyone involved.

Get Inspired: Local Examples

Nashville – Culture builds more than a crosswalk

The Nashville MPO and a a local Latino services organization paired up to work on a planned transit corridor and ensure that stronger grassroots coalitions will help determine how their neighborhoods change.

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About Us

Transportation for America

Transportation for America is an alliance of elected, business and civic leaders from communities across the country, united to ensure that states and the federal government step up to invest in smart, homegrown, locally-driven transportation solutions — because these are the investments that hold the key to our future economic prosperity.

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Thank You

This report was made possible through the generous support of the Kresge Foundation.

The Kresge Foundation “focuses on the role arts and culture play in re-energizing the communities that have long been central to America’s social and economic life,” believing that “arts and culture are an integral part of life and, when embedded in cross-sector revitalization activity, can contribute to positive and enduring economic, physical, social and cultural change in communities.” Kresge also supported projects detailed in this report in Nashville, Portland, San Diego and Detroit.

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