1. Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia
Niina Vajavaara

2. Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia
Introduction
Economic and ethnic segregation defines the image of the city
Diversity is an important element of urbanism
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

3. Beyond ”City Trenches”
The location of arts and cultural organizations is not related to race or social class, they are concentrated in neighborhoods that are ethnically and economically diverse
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

4. Beyond ”City Trenches”
Arts and cultural institutions and cultural engagement identify diverse urban neighborhoods
Community arts and cultural institutions are the most important and numerous organizations in these neighborhoods
Diverse neighborhoods with high levels of cultural engagement usually help urban communities with their revitalization
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

5. Geographic Distribution of Arts and Cultural Organizations
There are approximately nonprofit arts and cultural organizations and informal associations
The biggest concentration of organizations is in Philadelphia’s Center City
80 % of cultural organizations are outside of the Center City
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

6. Geographic Distribution of Arts and Cultural Organizations
Arts and cultural institutions make up a big part of all social organizations
Arts and cultural organizations are usually located in the same neighborhoods that have also other types of social institutions
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

7. Geographic Distribution of All Social Organizations
All types of social organizations have a tendency to gather in certain parts of the metropolitan area
There are over community organizations of other types than arts and cultural organizations
In majority of Philadelphia, over 25 % of all institutions are churches
Most often churches are the majority of social institutions in the suburbs
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

8. Neighborhood Socio-economic Characteristics
In poor neighborhoods, there are more social organizations than in the wealthier ones
Neighborhoods with higher amount of young adults, have more all kinds of institutions
Arts and cultural organizations succeed in ethnically and economically diverse neighborhoods better than other social institutions
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

9. Neighborhood Diversity
The highest number of all types of social organizations are located in poor and African-American neighborhoods
Almost 25 % of the residents of Philadelphia live in ethnically diverse block group
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

10. Neighborhood Diversity
11 % of Philadelphians live in white/African-American neighborhoods
5 % live in Latino/African-American neighborhoods
4 % live in neighborhoods with a major Asian-American population
3 % live in other diverse neighborhoods
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

11. Diversity and the Location of Social Organizations
There are much more organizations in neighborhoods that have majority of African-Americans than in the ones that have majority of white residents, however neighborhoods with residents of many ethnic groups have the highest number of social organizations
In neighborhoods that are both economically and ethnically diverse, the amount of cultural organizations is more than five times the average
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

12. Patterns of Cultural Participation
The mainstream pattern
The most common pattern of cultural participation
Identifies parts of the city with high levels of participation in the city’s largest cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Museum of Arts and the Philadelphia Orchestra
The Alternative pattern
Identifies parts of the metropolitan area with high levels of participation in newer and more experimental cultural institutions
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

13. Patterns of Cultural Participation
Participation In these patterns differ mostly on their socio-economic features
In mainstream pattern, economic status is a major factor in participation
In alternative pattern, participation is strongest in more diverse neighborhoods
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

14. The Social Impact of the Arts
More than one third of all the residents live in a block group that is either economically or ethnically diverse
There are many different types of social organizations in the urban neighborhoods
Arts and cultural institutions improve the quality of community life and also help revitalizing the neighborhood
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

15. The Social Impact of the Arts
Social, special interest, professional and labor organizations are concentrated in neighborhoods with low poverty and only few ethnical groups
Without cultural organizations, there would be only few connections between the rich and the poor and among different ethnic groups. It is important that cultural organizations draw people from local neighborhoods and from the wider region into some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia

16. Thank you for your attention!
Re-presenting the City: Arts, Culture, and Diversity in Philadelphia