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Fuzzy Vibrancy introduces international audiences to a major new US cultural policy and funding trend – creative placemaking, wherein cross-sector partners strategically shape the social and physical character of a place (ranging from a neighbourhood to region) around arts and cultural assets. The article critically examines creative placemaking's similarities to and deviations from pre-existing cultural policy and its fit with other arts-based economic and community development trends in the USA. Through an analysis of policy rhetoric and a sample of initiatives, it explores the interplay between policy and practice. It focuses on the challenges of a tendency towards “fuzzy concepts” within policy development.
Anne Gadwa Nicodemus (Tue,) studied this question.
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