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World Population Shifts
RAND Corporation 2000; US$ 9.95This presentation examines population shifts in different parts of the world, their effects on the flow of people across borders, and potential responses by the developed world to growing immigration pressures. more...
A Portrait of the Visual Arts
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Providing information about developments in the visual arts world, this book promotes analysis of the sector, describing the characteristics of visual arts consumers (collectors and appreciators), artists, finances, and organizations. It also tells a story of rapid, even seismic change, systemic imbalances, and dislocation. more...
An Economic Development Architecture for New Orleans
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, followed by multiple levee failures, devastated New Orleans and other parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast, inflicting major damage to commercial property, infrastructure, and housing. The failure of the levees and the subsequent flooding of New Orleans caused enormous damage and disruption to the city, its people, and its... more...
Cuba After Castro
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95When the end of the Castro era arrives, the successor government and theCuban people will need to answer certain questions: How is Castro?s morethan four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What will be thepolitical, social, and economic challenges Cuba will confront? What are theimpediments to Cuba?s economic development and democratic... more...
A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work looks at the process by which individuals become involved in the arts and attempts to identify ways in which arts institutions can most effectively influence this process. more...
Post-Katrina Recovery of the Housing Market Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95In summer 2006, the Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal asked the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute to describe the state of the pre-Hurricane Katrina housing markets in Mississippi's three coastal counties, to estimate the damage the storm di more...
From Celluloid to Cyberspace
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95The arts in America are entering a new era that will pose many challenges for the arts community. However, our current knowledge of the operation of the arts world and its underlying dynamics is limited. These limits are particularly pronounced with regard to the newest and most dynamic component of the arts world: the media arts. Defined as art that... more...
The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
RAND Corporation 2006; US$ 9.95Estimates the repopulation of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to guide redevelopment planning, using estimates of pre-Katrina population, current housing habitability, and future reconstruction of flood-damaged housing. more...
The Performing Arts in a New Era
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This work examines the state of the performing arts in America. The authors idendify key trends affecting audiences, artists and performing groups and their financial health, and explore effects of innovations such as the Internet on the performing arts. more...
Gifts of the Muse
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95During the past decade, arts advocates have relied on an instrumental approach to the benefits of the arts in arguing for support of the arts. This report evaluates these arguments and asserts that a new approach is needed. This new approach offers a more comprehensive view of how the arts create private and public value, underscores the importance... more...









