Cultural Renewal

Your community's sustainable revitalization program won't be complete--and might not even be possible--without addressing the renewal of your cultural assets, both public and private.  But cultural leaders should likewise be effectively engaged in the renewal of all 12 sectors of restorable assets in order to produce renewal that's both rapid and resilient.

Culture relates in some way to virtually all aspects of our natural, built, and socioeconomic environments, and not just the more obvious forms, such as traditions, language, cuisine, worldviews, religions, arts, crafts, games, sports, etc. 

If you've already got an effective cultural renewal organization, it could be an ideal sponsor for your community's Real Revitalization Program.  Is this organization trusted and effective?  Does it wish to take an even larger, longer-term role in the community's future? If so, sponsoring the Real Revitalization Program is also the best way to help it create (or become) a revitalization forum. 

A revitalization forum is a permanent public-private organization that supports an ongoing revitalization program.  [Note: Readers of reWealth (McGraw-Hill, 2008) will recognize this type of organization as what that book technically referred to as a "renewal engine". It was revealed as the key factor behind the most dramatic urban regeneration success stories documented in reWealth.]