HOW WE MAKE THE CASE VIII: The Creative Placemaking Argument
NEA's Chief of Staff Jamie Bennett, in an interview with Barry Hessenius: In creative placemaking, an entirely different trope is substituted: you begin with a shared interest " often a problem formulation " and you talk about what the arts can do to help achieve it. A common example is a community that begins with a vacant downtown or an abandoned warehouse district along its waterfront. The arts talk about the foo…