Communities in both Europe and North America are encouraging the development of cultural amenities as a strategy for improving quality of life, attracting and retaining productive workers, and promoting urban revitalization. If these policies are effective then the presence of cultural amenities should increase the local demand for housing, and the value of cultural amenities should be reflecte...

In criminology, it is well understood that indicators of urban decay, such as abandoned buildings littered with broken windows, provide criminals with signals identifying neighborhoods with lower crime detection and apprehension rates than better maintained neighborhoods. Whether it is the resident population’s sense of apathy, lack of civic pride, or fear of confrontation that causes criminals...

Although Wallace’s revitalization movement model has been successfully utilized in scores of ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies of societies throughout the world, revitalization is considerably less well documented in archaeological contexts. An examination of the materiality of revitalization movements affords an opportunity to redress this lack by investigating how material culture crea...

There is a growing consensus among urban analysts that inner-city neighborhoods suffer from a lack of social capital. Because these areas do not have a strong social infrastructure in place to support successful revitalization efforts, urban policy recommendations now call for developing social capital in the worst-off parts of our cities. However, this consensus has been reached without any em...

New immigrants have already changed Philadelphia's cultural scene—particularly in urban neighborhoods. This brief uses three types of evidence— a small-area database of cultural participation, a survey of residents of North Philadelphia and Camden, NJ, and a survey of artists living or working in the metropolitan area—to explore migrant cultural engagement. Taken together, SIAP’s evidence on ar...

New-type urbanization and rural revitalization have gradually become national strategies, are an objective requirement for China to be able enter into a new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics also inevitable result the integration new-type development in stage. This paper reviews classic theories cognition research on urban–rural relations at home abroad, outlines stage evolution Chi...