{"id":2356,"date":"2018-08-16T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2018-08-16T08:37:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:37:48","slug":"back-to-school-a-cultural-planning-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2018\/08\/back-to-school-a-cultural-planning-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school – a cultural planning syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"do<\/a>So after a stretch in university administration, I am back full-time in the classroom this fall. One of my classes is in Cultural Planning and Community Development – i.e. “place-based” cultural policy – and though I’ve taught bits and pieces of the subject here and there, have never had the course actually assigned to me until now.<\/p>\n

So, this is what I’ve put together. It’s a lot of reading, with some preliminaries on what’s going on in the economy right now (since I don’t think anyone can do “placemaking” policy without a good understanding of current economic and social trends specific to different places)<\/p>\n

Hopefully readers of this blog interested in the subject find something of interest here they hadn’t seen before!<\/p>\n

Readings<\/p>\n

August 21: Hors d\u2019oeuvres (I’m using video conference for this first class, from Tallinn<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) chapter 1.
\nRichard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) chapter 1.
\nEdward Glaeser, The Triumph of the City (2011) Introduction.<\/p>\n

August 23: Introduction to Cultural Planning (guest lecturer Professor Woronkowicz)<\/p>\n

Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa \u201cArts and culture in urban or regional planning: a review and research agenda\u201d Journal of Planning Education and Research 29(3) 379-391.
\nAnn Markusen \u201cCreative cities: a 10-year research agenda\u201d Journal of Urban Affairs 36(S2): 567-589.<\/p>\n

August 28: Urbanization and Economic Transition in the US<\/p>\n

Edward Glaeser, The Triumph of the City (2011) Chapter 2
\nThe Economist \u201cNice change\u201d (July 21, 2018) https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2018\/07\/19\/the-flourishing-midwest<\/a><\/p>\n

August 30: Urbanization and Economic Transition abroad<\/p>\n

John M. Quigley \u201cUrbanization, agglomeration, and economic development.\u201d In Spence, M, Clarke Annez, P & Buckley, RM (Eds.), Urbanization and growth: The International Bank for reconstruction and development, The World Bank (2009) chapter 4 https:\/\/urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu\/pdf\/GCU_04pp115-132.pdf<\/a>
\nThe Economist \u201cThe bitter generation\u201d (May 5, 2018) https:\/\/www.economist.com\/china\/2018\/05\/03\/in-chinas-cities-young-people-with-rural-ties-are-angry<\/a>
\nThe Economist \u201cVillas and slums\u201d (June 16, 2018) https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2018\/06\/14\/why-arab-states-have-lots-of-expensive-villas<\/a><\/p>\n

September 4: Employment, Education, Technology, and Trade<\/p>\n

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology (2008) Introduction.
\nEnrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (2012) chapter 3 \u201cThe Great Divergence\u201d
\nAnne Case and Angus Deaton \u201cRising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century\u201d PNAS 112(49) (December 8, 2015): 15078-15083.
\nDavid Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson \u201cWhen work disappears: manufacturing decline and the falling marriage-market value of young men\u201d IZA Institute of Labor Economics (April 2018) ftp:\/\/repec.iza.org\/RePEc\/Discussionpaper\/dp11465.pdf<\/a>
\nThe Economist \u201cLeft-behind places\u201d (October 21, 2017) https:\/\/www.economist.com\/briefing\/2017\/10\/21\/globalisation-has-marginalised-many-regions-in-the-rich-world<\/a><\/p>\n

September 6: Inequalities in Cities<\/p>\n

Edward L. Glaeser, Matt Resseger and Kristina Tobio \u201cInequality in cities\u201d Journal of Regional Science 49(4) (2009): 617-646.
\nNeil Lee \u201cInclusive growth in cities: a sympathetic critique\u201d Regional Studies (2018)<\/p>\n

September 11: The Economics of Diversity<\/p>\n

William Easterly and Ross Levine \u201cAfrica\u2019s growth tragedy: politics and ethnic divisions\u201d (1997) https:\/\/williameasterly.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/17_easterly_levine_africasgrowthtragedy_prp.pdf<\/a>
\nGianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri \u201cThe economic value of cultural diversity: evidence from US cities\u201d Journal of Economic Geography 6 (2006): 9-44.
\nAlberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss and Hillel Rapoport \u201cImmigration, diversity, and economic prosperity\u201d CEPR VOX (August 22, 2013) https:\/\/voxeu.org\/article\/immigration-diversity-and-economic-prosperity<\/a><\/p>\n

September 13: Politics, Class, Culture, and \u201cBubbles\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierre Bourdieu \u201cThe forms of capital\u201d in J. Richardson (ed.) Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (1984): 241-258.
\nTak Wing Chan et al \u201cUnderstanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit\u201d Institute of Education, University College London (December 2017) http:\/\/repec.ioe.ac.uk\/REPEc\/pdf\/qsswp1715.pdf<\/a>
\nAaron Reeves and Robert de Vries \u201cCan cultural consumption increase future earnings? Exploring the economic returns to cultural capital\u201d British Journal of Sociology (2018)
\nAlisa Moldavanova, John C. Pierce and Nicholas P. Lovrich \u201cSociopolitical sources of creative cultural capital in U.S. counties\u201d Journal of Urban Affairs 40(4) (2018): 518-542.
\nKlaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg \u201cThe cultural divide\u201d NBER Working Paper 24630 (May 2018) http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w24630<\/a>
\nMarianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica \u201cComing apart? Cultural distances in the United States over time\u201d NBER Working Paper 24771 (June 2018) http:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w24771<\/a>
\nNew York Times \u201cAn extremely detailed map of the 2016 election\u201d https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/upshot\/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html#10.95\/39.170\/-86.516\/155834<\/a><\/p>\n

September 18: Why place-based policy?<\/p>\n

Amartya Sen \u201cEquality of What?\u201d The Tanner Lecture on Human Values (1979) http:\/\/hdrnet.org\/43\/1\/sen80.pdf<\/a>
\nEdward L. Glaser \u201cShould the government rebuild New Orleans, or just give residents checks?\u201d The Economists\u2019 Voice 2(4) (2005) https:\/\/are.berkeley.edu\/~ligon\/Teaching\/EEP100\/glaeser05.pdf<\/a>
\nRandall Crane and Michael Manville \u201cPeople or place? Revisiting the who versus the where of urban development\u201d Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Land Lines (July 2008)<\/p>\n

September 20: Accessibility, Inclusion and Disability<\/p>\n

Guest lecturer Professor Beth Bienvenu<\/p>\n

September 25: Measuring Arts Participation<\/p>\n

National Endowment for the Arts, \u201cMeasuring cultural engagement: a quest for new terms, tools, and techniques\u201d (2014) https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/measuring-cultural-engagement.pdf<\/a>
\nNational Endowment for the Arts \u201cA decade of arts engagement: findings from the survey of public participation in the arts, 2002-2012\u201d (2015) https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2012-sppa-feb2015.pdf<\/a>
\nJennifer L. Novak-Leonard, Michael K. O\u2019Malley and Eileen Truong \u201cMinding the gap: elucidating the disconnect between arts participation metrics and arts engagement within immigrant communities\u201d Cultural Trends 24(2) (2015): 112-121.<\/p>\n

September 27: The Arts and Happiness<\/p>\n

Carol Graham, Soumya Chattopadhyay and Jai Roberto Lakhanpal \u201cUsing new metrics to assess the role of the arts in well-being: some initial results from the economics of happiness\u201d Working paper, Brookings Institution and National Endowment for the Arts (2014) https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Brookings-Final-Report.pdf<\/a>
\nChris Hand \u201cDo the arts make you happy? A quantile regression approach\u201d Journal of Cultural Economics 42(2) (2018): 271-286
\nKate Oakley, Dave O\u2019Brien and David Lee \u201cHappy now? Well-being and cultural policy\u201d Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 31(2) (Summer 2013): 18-26.<\/p>\n

October 2: The Arts and Togetherness<\/p>\n

Robert Putnam \u201cThe arts and social capital\u201d from Better Together (2003)
\nStephen Marche \u201cIs Facebook making us lonely?\u201d The Atlantic (May 2012) https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/05\/is-facebook-making-us-lonely\/308930\/<\/a><\/p>\n

October 4: The Arts and Empathy<\/p>\n

Raymond A. Mar, Keith Oatley, Jennifer dela Paz and Jordan B. Peterson \u201cBookworms versus nerds: exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds\u201d Journal of Research in Personality 40(5) (2006): 694-712.
\nMaja Djikic, Keith Oatley, Sara Zoeterman and Jordan B. Peterson \u201cOn being moved by art: how reading fiction transforms the self\u201d Creativity Research Journal 21(1) (2009): 24-29.
\nBarbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson (excerpt) (1995).
\nJoshua Landy \u201cCorruption by literature\u201d Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1(2) (2010). https:\/\/arcade.stanford.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/article_pdfs\/roflv01i02_Landy_040310_0.pdf<\/a>
\nMichael Rushton \u201cThinking outside the empathy box\u201d Cultural Trends 26(3) (2017): 260-271.<\/p>\n

October 9: Should Cultural Policy Serve \u201cInstrumental\u2019 Ends?<\/p>\n

Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras and Arthur Brooks, Gifts of the Muse: reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts, RAND (2004) https:\/\/www.rand.org\/content\/dam\/rand\/pubs\/monographs\/2005\/RAND_MG218.pdf<\/a>
\nSteven Hadley and Clive Gray \u201cHyperinstrumentalism and cultural policy: means to an end or an end to meaning?\u201d Cultural Trends 26(2) (2017): 95-106.
\nKate Oakley and Jonathan Ward \u201cThe art of the good life: culture and sustainable prosperity\u201d Cultural Trends 27(1) (2018): 4-17.<\/p>\n

October 11: Inequalities in the Art World<\/p>\n

Mark Taylor and Dave O\u2019Brien \u201c\u2019Culture is a meritocracy\u2019: why creative workers\u2019 attitudes may reinforce social inequality\u201d Sociological Research Online (2017)
\nOrian Brook, David O\u2019Brien and Mark Taylor \u201cPanic! Social class, taste and inequalities in the creative industries\u201d (2018) http:\/\/createlondon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Panic-Social-Class-Taste-and-Inequalities-in-the-Creative-Industries1.pdf<\/a>
\nMichael Rushton \u201cWomen\u2019s wages and employment at the top of the art world\u201d (November 27, 2017) https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2017\/11\/womens-wages-and-employment-at-the-top-of-the-art-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n

October16: The Creative Class<\/p>\n

Richard Florida \u201cBohemia and economic geography\u201d Journal of Economic Geography 2(1) (2002): 55-71.
\nEdward L. Glaeser \u201cReview of Richard Florida\u2019s The Rise of the Creative Class\u201d (2002) https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/glaeser\/files\/book_review_of_richard_floridas_the_rise_of_the_creative_class.pdf<\/a>
\nKarol Jan Boroweicki and Kathryn Graddy \u201cImmigrant artists: enrichment or displacement?\u201d Working Paper, Brandeis University (2018) http:\/\/www.brandeis.edu\/economics\/RePEc\/brd\/doc\/Brandeis_WP122.pdf<\/a>
\nMatthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (2009) chapters 1 & 2.<\/p>\n

October 23: The Consumer City<\/p>\n

Sharon Zukin \u201cUrban lifestyles: diversity and standardization in spaces of consumption\u201d Urban Studies 35(5-6): 825-839.
\nEdward L. Glaeser, The Triumph of the City (2011) chapter 5 \u201cIs London a Luxury Resort?\u201d<\/p>\n

October 25: Gentrification<\/p>\n

Sharon Zukin \u201cGentrification: culture and capital in the urban core\u201d Annual Review of Sociology 13 (1987): 129-147.
\nMeghan Ashlin Rich \u201c\u2019Artists are a tool for gentrification\u2019: maintaining artists and creative production in arts districts\u201d International Journal of Cultural Policy (2018)
\nLance Freeman \u201cFive myths about gentrification\u201d Washington Post (June 3, 2016) https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/five-myths-about-gentrification\/2016\/06\/03\/b6c80e56-1ba5-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?utm_term=.05b2a9d87baf<\/a>
\nThe Economist \u201cIn praise of gentrification\u201d (June 23, 2018) https:\/\/www.economist.com\/united-states\/2018\/06\/21\/in-praise-of-gentrification<\/a><\/p>\n

October 30: Culture and Economic Development<\/p>\n

David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann and Nikolaus Seitz \u201cCultural amenities, subcultures and entrepreneurship\u201d (2017) Working paper. https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2932887<\/a>
\nPeter Campbell, Tamsin Cox and Dave O\u2019Brien \u201cThe social life of measurement: how methods have shaped the idea of culture in urban regeneration\u201d Journal of Cultural Economy 10(1) (2017): 49-62.
\nDesislava Hristova, Luca M. Aiello and Danielle Quercia \u201cThe new urban success: how culture pays\u201d Frontier in Physics 6 (article 27) (April 2018) https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1804.03760.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

November 1: Creative Placemaking \u2013 Concepts<\/p>\n

Amanda Johnson Ashley \u201cBeyond the aesthetic: the historical pursuit of local arts economic development\u201d Journal of Planning History 14(1) (2015): 38-61.
\nAnn Markusen and Anne Gadwa \u201cCreative Placemaking\u201d White Paper for the Mayors\u2019 Institute on City Design, National Endowment for the Arts (2010) https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/CreativePlacemaking-Paper.pdf<\/a>
\nAnne Gadwa Nicodemus \u201cFuzzy vibrancy: creative placemaking as ascendant US cultural policy\u201d Cultural Trends 22(3\/4) (2013): 213-222.<\/p>\n

November 6: Creative Placemaking Programs in the US and UK<\/p>\n

Jamie Bennett, \u201cCreative placemaking in community planning and development: an introduction to ArtPlace America\u201d Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Investment Review (December 2014): 77-84.
\nNational Endowment for the Arts \u201cOur Town\u201d https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/national\/our-town<\/a>
\nThe Kresge Foundation \u201cArts and Culture\u201d https:\/\/kresge.org\/programs\/arts-culture<\/a>
\nArts Council England \u201cCreative People and Places\u201d https:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\/creative-people-and-places-fund\/creative-people-and-places-what-it%E2%80%99s-all-about<\/a>
\nMark Robinson \u201cFaster, but slower; slower, but faster\u201d Thinking Practice (2016) http:\/\/www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk\/our-learning\/faster-slower-slower-faster<\/a>
\nMichael Rushton and Joanna Woronkowicz \u201cNow<\/em> does the arts council know what it is doing?\u201d working paper (2018)<\/p>\n

November 8: Cultural Planning in Small Towns<\/p>\n

Wendell Berry \u201cThe work of local culture\u201d Iowa Humanities Lecture (1988) https:\/\/thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/10\/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture\/<\/a>
\nAnne Gadwa \u201cSmall is beautiful: creative placemaking in rural communities\u201d Grantmakers in the Arts Reader 25(2) (Summer 2014) https:\/\/www.giarts.org\/article\/small-beautiful<\/a>
\nTimothy R. Wojan and Bonnie Nichols \u201cDesign, innovation, and rural creative places: are the arts the cherry on top, or the secret sauce?\u201d PLOS ONE (February 28, 2018) http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0192962<\/a><\/p>\n

November 13: Cultural Districts \u2013 Planned<\/p>\n

James Doeser and Anna Marazuela Kim \u201cGovernance models for cultural districts\u201d Global Cultural Districts Network (2018)
\nJane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, chapter 8
\nIndiana Arts Commission \u201cStatewide Cultural Districts Guidelines\u201d https:\/\/www.in.gov\/arts\/files\/CD-guidelines_cy19.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

November 15: Cultural Districts \u2013 \u201cOrganic\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert \u201cCultivating \u2018natural\u2019 cultural districts\u201d University of Pennsylvania (2007). https:\/\/www.giarts.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Cultivating-Natural-Cultural-Districts.pdf<\/a>
\nJi Youn Kim \u201cCultural entrepreneurs and urban regeneration in Itaewon, Seoul\u201d Cities 56 (2016): 132-140.<\/p>\n

November 27: Earmarked Taxes for the Arts<\/p>\n

Michael Rushton \u201cSupport for earmarked public spending on culture: evidence from a referendum in Metropolitan Detroit\u201d Public Budgeting and Finance 25(4) (Winter 2005): 72-85.
\nDenver Scfd.org<\/a>
\nSalt Lake City Slco.org\/zap\/<\/a>
\nColumbus, Ohio http:\/\/www.gcac.org\/about\/in-the-community\/history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

November 29: Buildings for the Arts
\nCarl Grodach \u201cBeyond Bilbao: rethinking flagship cultural development and planning in three California cities\u201d Journal of Planning Education and Research 29(3) (2010): 353-366.
\nJoanna Woronkowicz et al, Set in Stone: Building America\u2019s New Generation of Arts Facilities, 1994-2008 (University of Chicago, 2012) http:\/\/www.norc.org\/PDFs\/setinstone%20FINAL%20REPORT.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

December 4 and 6: Student presentations<\/p>\n

Week of December 10-14: Final Exam<\/p>\n

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