Art-Making or Place-Making? The Relationship between Open-Air Performance Venues and Neighborhood Change

2015/07/31 by Joanna Woronkowicz
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management #Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

paper · doi:10.1177/0739456x15597759

openalex publication_date 2015/07/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This study assesses the impact of a particular type of arts planning investment—an open-air performance venue—on a set of indicators measuring neighborhood change. Using data from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses and the 2008–2012 American Community Survey, the study analyzes relationships between the presence of an open-air performance venue and indicators of neighborhood change through a propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences model. The results show that, overall, neighborhoods with open-air performance venues are associated with expansion or growth, and less so with changes in resident composition.

Citations

• Art Spaces in Community and Economic Development: Connections to Neighborhoods, Artists, and the Cultural Economy
• Cultural Clusters: The Implications of Cultural Assets Agglomeration for Neighborhood Revitalization
• Arts and Culture in Urban or Regional Planning: A Review and Research Agenda

Related

• Cultural Clusters: The Implications of Cultural Assets Agglomeration for Neighborhood Revitalization
• Art Spaces in Community and Economic Development: Connections to Neighborhoods, Artists, and the Cultural Economy
• ‘Artists are a tool for gentrification’: maintaining artists and creative production in arts districts
• Placemaking in Practice: Municipal Arts and Cultural Plans’ Approaches to Placemaking and Creative Placemaking
• Don’t Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification