This is an excerpt from the City and County of San Francisco's Planning Code Section 429. It speaks to art works, options to meet public art fee requirements, recognition of architect and artists, and general requirements related to arts commissions in C-3 District.

"Social capital," a new idea gaining worldwide recognition, is explored in this book through studies of education, health, political science, urban regeneration, and economic development.

The Center for Arts and Culture has published a series of issue papers entitled Art, Culture, and the National Agenda to demonstrate how public policy decisions affect our nation's cultural life. This paper, the third in the series, provides an overview and analysis of federal policies and practices, and the way culture intersects with civic life in communities.

In 1998, the Maine Cultural Affairs Council (MCAC), a collaborative made up of the Maine Arts Commission, Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Maine State Library, Maine State Museum, Maine Historical Society, Maine State Archives, and the Maine Humanities Council, worked to develop the New Century Community Program (NCCP). The Program’s grantmaking, direct service, and technical assistance activities focused on three areas: (1) advancing the economic and social development of Maine’s communities by strengthening their arts and cultural resources; (2) expanding access to

Culture Counts is a report of the New York Foundation for the Arts special initiative, A Cultural Blueprint for New York City. The document is the first comprehensive study of New Yorks cultural life in the past thirty years. It presents a series of findings and recommendations that take a fresh look at public policy in that city and marks the beginning of a vital discourse among its citizens, leaders, and cultural sector.

Set in the context of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the former steel capital of the , this paper explores the potential for a renewed civic or democratic dialogue on a specific brownfield development site.

Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility was conceptualized and produced as a weekend-long event in October 2000. It convened a group of peers to assess the current state of curatorial practice, to articulate professional values, and test the assumptions implicit in them.

This paper critically reviews claims that public art helps develop senses of identity and senses of place, contributes to civic identy, addresses community needs, etc., and provides theoretical critiques of public art's contributions to urban regeneration.

This issue paper focuses on three major ways people generally experience culture: through personal attendance, traditional media, and new media, as well as five barriers to participation: lack of adequate funding, disability, geographic remoteness, inadequate literacy, and some of the policies that shape access to the Internet and other media.

This issue of COPC Central looks at how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships, Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC) are using arts programming for youth to rehabilitate local communities.