Across the country, urban leaders are developing arts-focused urban policy, but much remains unknown about artists' geography-particularly in contracting, rustbelt cities. Using Cuyahoga County, Ohio, this article describes the geography of artists and explores methodologies for predicting artist-concentrated neighborhoods. The research questions if, and how, scholars can predict artist neighborhoods and design policies to support and nurture these locations. It maps and analyzes existing patterns using survey, property, and Census data, and predicts artist-friendly neighborhoods via a regression model. The analysis reveals neighborhoods' residual capacity for artists and directs initial policy recommendations for an artist-focused vacant land reutilization initiative. For scholars, the findings contribute to a rapidly growing body of literature about the relationship between artists, neighborhood revitalization, and urban policy. For practitioners, the research investigates one strategy for shaping land policy in the post-2008 housing market.Across the country, city leaders, urban planners, and others are developing urban policy targeting artists and the arts. In planning practice and scholarship, artists and their role in revitalizing cities is a "hot topic." At the same time, much is still unknown about artists as a unique population group (if they are even a unique group), their residential and workplace geography, their preferences for housing and work space, and the ability to design policies that reinforce and promote artist neighborhoods. Much of the existing literature on the subject emphasizes booming, large cities, while neglecting moderate-sized, contracting, rust belt locations. This is despite the fact that these cities are also energetically turning to the arts and artists as one avenue of hope after decades of disinvestment.
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