PDF Peter and Alice (Oberon Modern Plays) by John Logan in Arts-Photography

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Urban and regional planners; elected officials; and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list; but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important sector must be considered not only as a source of amenities or pleasant diversions; but also as a wholly integrated part of local economies. Employing original data produced through both quantitative and qualitative research; Creative Communities provides a greater understanding of how art works as an engine for transforming communities."Without good data and analysismdash;much of it grounded in economic theorymdash;we cannot hope to strengthen communities through the arts or to achieve any of the other goals we set for the National Endowment for the Arts; the largest nationwide funder of the arts." mdash;from the Foreword by Rocco LandesmanContributors: Hasan Bakhshi (Nesta UK); Elisa Barbour (University of California; Berkeley); Shiri M. Breznitz (Georgia Institute of Technology); Roland J. Kushner (Muhlenberg College); Rex LaMore (Michigan State University); James Lawton (Michigan State); Neil Lee (Nesta UK); Richard G. Maloney (Boston University); Ann Markusen (University of Minnesota); Juan Mateos-Garcia (Nesta UK); Anne Gadwa Nicodemus (Metris Arts Consulting); Douglas S. Noonan (Indiana Universityndash;Purdue University Indianapolis); Peter Pedroni (Williams College); Amber Peruski (Michigan State); Michele Root-Bernstein (Michigan State); Robert Root-Bernstein (Michigan State); Eileen Roraback (Michigan State); Michael Rushton (Indiana University); Lauren Schmitz (New School for Social Research); Jenny Schuetz (University of Southern California); John Schweitzer (Michigan State); Stephen Sheppard (Williams College); Megan VanDyke (Michigan State); Gregory H. Wassall (Northeastern University)