The Creative community builder's handbook : how to transform communities using local assets, art, and culture / by Tom Borrup ; with Partners for Livable Communities ; foreword by Robert McNulty

By:

Borrup, Tom

Publication details: Saint Paul, Minnesota : Fieldstone Alliance, cop. 2006Description: xviii, 261 pISBN:

9780940069473

Summary: Put the Power of Arts and Culture to Work in Your Community. Art and culture can be a powerful catalyst for revitalizing the economic, social, and physical conditions in communities. Now, the Creative Community Builder's Handbook gives you successful strategies, best practices, and "how-to" guidance to turn cultural gems into effective community change. Understand key principles. Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts' impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies. Part 2 gives you ten concrete strategies for building on the unique qualities of your own community. Each strategy is illustrated by two case studies taken from a variety of cities, small towns, and neighborhoods across the United States. You'll learn how people from all walks of life used culture and creativity as a glue to bind together people, ideas, enterprises, and institutions to make places more balanced and healthy. Five steps guide you. Part 3 lays out five steps to assessing, planning, and implementing creative community building projects. Detailed guidance, hands-on worksheets, and a hypothetical community sample walk you through the entire process. By understanding the theoretical context (Part 1), learning from case studies (Part 2), and following the five steps (Part 3), you'll be able to build a more vibrant, creative, and equitable community. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 03542	1	Available (Disponible)		1900110387

About the author -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Author’s acknowledgements -- Introduction: creative community building -- I. Ideas behind this book: 1. The role of culture in community building -- II. Ten economic and social development strategies: 2. Building strong economies through arts and culture ; 3. Building social connections through arts and culture -- III. Steps for creative community builders: 4. Step 1: Asses your situation and goals ; 5. Step 2: Identify and recruit effective partners ; 6. Step 3: Map values, strengths, assets and history ; 7. Step 4: Focus on your key asset, vision, identity and core strategies ; 8. Step 5: Craft a plan that brings the identity to life ; 9. Securing funding, policy support and media coverage -- Afterword -- Glossary -- References to organizations and agencies -- Bibliography -- Index

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