This paper focuses on the cultural future of small cities and on how cultural and arts organizations work together (or fail to work together) in a small city setting.

In this paper, the author discusses the most recent change affecting American central cities and their downtowns the cultural renaissance.

The importance of cultural institutions to contemporary revitalization efforts in U.S. cities is attributed to several factors, including cities' dependence on their consumption economies, cultural institutions' interest in improving their surroundings, and cultural institutions' abilities to draw on serious and popular art forms.

In this article I review and evaluate recent work that argues for the rising importance of the cultural sector, and creativity in general, in the context of the new economy.

This annotated bibliography focuses on broader issues about the new economy and how to understand it.

A Report from the First Joint Convention of Americans for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

This report is based on a two-and-a-half-day workshop held from the 24th to the 26th of June 2001 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The topic of the workshop was Research in the Arts and Cultural Industries in the U.S. and in Europe.

This evaluation report from the Culture Builds Communities Project reviews a four-year comprehensive community grant program. The goals of this program were to both increase participation in the arts and to foster community building through the arts and culture.

This handbook suggests strategies for improving an organizations ability for increasing arts and cultural participation in their community.

This paper provides a close reading of "Flow City," an ecological public art installation by Mierle Laderman Ukeles in the Fresh Kills landsfill site, New York City.