This year documentarist Ken Burns produced a series of 5 films for television -Public Broadcasting System PBS- that are a good example of how art can attract tourism and support to promote, develop and also protect natural capital.
United States National Parks system started with pioneers John Muir and Gifford Pinchot included the development of lodges and touristic circuits as well as scenic roads and tourism and conservationism education.
Artists like photographer Ansel Adams -who captured the ravishing beauty of Yosemite with his photographies and introduced it to millions of Americans-, literally "opening their eyes" to the park and luring them to come and to preserve it at the same time through conservationist groups such as the Sierra Club
Or painter Georgia O'Keefe, who came to New Mexico from New York and built their home and studio there for 50 years, converting cities such as Taos and Santa Fe into art centers and developing communities and housing development following her art and the local traditions of adobe homes.
<O'Keefe and Adams collaborated also in promoting Taos
That created a style of housing and development that is today a prized characteristic of the town -Taos homes can command 500,000 dollar plus prices because of the appreciation generated by artists like O'Keefe and Adams-
How could we apply these lessons and examples to our PII projects?
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