Examines the impacts of arts and cultural consumption and production on local economies. Topics include location choices of arts entrepreneurs; links between the arts and non-arts sectors; public policies to foster local arts; and the arts' effects on incomes in cities across the United States...

Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This...