Nowak, Jeremy2023-05-232023-05-232007-12-012017-03-17https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/46306In this publication, Jeremy Nowak, President and CEO of The Reinvestment Fund, examines the role of community-based arts and cultural activity in neighborhood development and points towards strategies for building an integrated vision of creativity and development. The monograph focuses on the ways cultural activity and neighborhood development have complementary and in some ways intertwined missions. Nowak also offers a framework for flexible investment and funding that supports the synthesis of creativity, development, and knowledge and contributes to imaginative and substantive urban revitalization.Arts and HumanitiesCivic and Community EngagementUrban Studies and PlanningReport