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Public Art And Land Value: Spatial Relationships In Denver, Colorado, Nicholas Decker
Public Art And Land Value: Spatial Relationships In Denver, Colorado, Nicholas Decker
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Public art is justified and sold based on a variety of purported public benefits, including spatial identity, enhanced use, and improved value. Very little research has been done to quantify these or any other large-scale impacts. In this study, the relationships between land value and public art are examined. Denver, Colorado was chosen as the area of study due to its extensive library of accessible data and its active public art program.
ArcGIS is used as an analytical tool to investigate these relationships. Public art data was obtained from Denver's GIS database and edited according to factors important to the …