Creative placemaking initiatives should provide authentic opportunities for community members to express their relationship with their physical and social environment. Current models of creative ...

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All of this typically paves the way for some form of creative placemaking, but I confess to a certain level of discomfort with the term, which seems to suggest places can be made to order.

That’s called gentrification, and it’s an unwanted consequence that experts say is a real concern as the Lawrence Arts Center pursues a prestigious “creative placemaking” grant.