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Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods

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November 21, 2014

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Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods

What art can do is start conversations.

– Gina Reichert –

Public Art: A Path To Safer, Stronger Neighborhoods

Art that merges with the landscape brings human presence, safety, and physical activity into the city’s spaces. This kind of art triggers more than one sense: it is something you move in, touch, and, in some cases, even eat. In Detroit, a spread-out city of single-family homes that is difficult to traverse and pockmarked by vacancy, these artistic interventions are an uncommonly powerful nexus of community life. They create welcoming traffic, as well as opportunities for neighbors to interact and work together. It is for a city with a future. { read more }

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