What makes Minnesota Street Project a solution to San Francisco’s property costs?
The City of San Francisco needed to address the challenges faced by artists and art organisations due to the booming property market, emphasising the urgent need to prevent artists.
P.A.R.T.Y in Chicago: engaging communities through art for urban transformation
Chicago identified priority investment corridors in each neighborhood for streetscape and public realm enhancements, including new roadways, sidewalks, light poles, bike lanes, landscaping and community plazas.
Making space for arts and culture: Vancouver leads the way in arts ownership
The purpose of the Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) policies is to prioritise the development of arts and culture spaces in city-building. The primary goal is to create more opportunities.
Cultural identity at risk: the challenge facing Vancouver’s historic Chinatown
Conditionally approved by Council in 2022, Vancouver proposed priority projects, actions, partners, policy work, and resources to foster a
vibrant Chinatown, and provide a foundational document towards a potential UNESCO.
Vancouver’s creative resistance: how the city is fighting artistic displacement
Making Space for Arts and Culture set out a 10-year target to secure 650,000 sq. ft. of new arts
and cultural space to address the alarming rate of displacement faced.
Is collaborative grantmaking the key to equitable funding in Vancouver?
The Grants and Awards team piloted a dedicated Cultural Equity Grants program, an invitation based, noncompetitive process for multi-year grants to support greater equity for the arts and culture.
Art avenues to a more equitable Chicago: ‘We Will Chicago’ unveiled
A ten year framework to enhance citywide equity and resiliency, the "We Will Chicago" plan includes approximately 40 goals and 150 objectives to improve Chicagoans' lives, especially individuals impacted.
Artists and activists: the beating heart of Chicago’s ‘Together We Heal’ initiative
In fall of 2020, the Office of Equity and Racial Justice (OERJ) launched Together We Heal, a journey toward
building racial healing and transformation through policy and culture change.
Who tells the story? Chicago changes the landscape of memory
Chicago recognized the need for a larger reckoning with monuments that symbolize outdated values and
that do not tell the story, or the full story, of the city's history.
Mayor Eric Adams’ blueprint safeguards New York’s cultural assets
In 2022, newly elected Mayor Eric Adams introduced the plan Rebuild, Renew, Reinvent: A Blueprint for New York City's Economic Recovery to address the significant impacts of the pandemic.