A number of scholars and public policy analysts continue to research the ways in which members of the "creative class" are transforming cities and small towns around the United States. This 77-page paper by Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa explores the possibilities of what they call "creative placemaking." For the purposes of this paper, creative placemaking is defined as the process by which "partners from public, private, non-profit and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city or region around arts and cultural activities." The paper includes an executive summary, and continues on to examine strategic case studies in Buffalo, Portland, and San Jose. The body of the paper contains six chapters, including "Challenges for Creative Placemaking" and "Creative Places As Incubators of Arts and Cultural Enterprise". Anyone working in the field of arts management, urban planning, or public policy will find much grist for their mill within these pages.