ARTIVATE: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 1 Number 1 -- Table of Contents: 

“Artivate Volume 1, Number 1: Table of Contents” p. i. 

“Arts Entrepreneurship” by Gary D. Beckman and Linda Essig, p. 1-8.

“What’s in a Name?: Typifying Artist Entrepreneurship in Community Based Training” by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, p. 9-24.

“The Case of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble: An Illustration of Entrepreneurial Theory in an Artistic Setting” by Jeffrey Nytch, p. 25-34.

“Shattering the Myth of the Passive Spectator: Entrepreneurial Efforts to Define and Enhance Participation in ‘Non-Participatory’ Arts” by Clayton Lord, p. 35-49.

ARTIVATE: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 1 Number 2 -- Table of Contents:

“Editor’s Introduction” by Gary D. Beckman, p. 1.

“Artivate Volume 1, Number 2: Table of Contents” p. 51. 

“Infusing Entrepreneurship Within Non-Business Disciplines: Preparing Artists and Others for Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship” by Joseph S. Roberts, p. 53-63.

“Frameworks for Educating the Artist of the Future: Teaching Habits of the Mind for Arts Entrepreneurship” by Linda Essig, p. 65-77.

“Dostoevsky’s ‘The Grand Inquisitor’: Adding an Ethical Component to the Teaching of Non-Market Entrepreneurship” by Gordon E. Shockley and Peter M. Frank, p. 79-91

ARTIVATE: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 2 Number 3 -- Table of Contents:

“Artivate Volume 2 Number 3: Table of Contents”

“Editors’ Introduction” Linda Essig and Gary D. Beckman, p. 1-2.

“Situated Cultural Entrepreneurship” by Johan Kolsteeg, p. 3-13.

“Culture Coin: A Commons-Based, Complementary Currency for the Arts and its Impact on Scarcity, Virtue, Ethics, and the Imagination” by Vijay Mathew and Polly Carl, p. 14-29.

“Barriers to Recognizing Arts Entrepreneurship Education as Essential to Professional Arts Training” by Jason C. White, p. 28-39.

Book Review: 

The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists, & the Future by Arlene Goldbard” reviewed by Stephani Etheridge Woodson, p. 40-42

ARTIVATE: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 3 Number 1 -- Table of Contents:

“Artivate Volume 3 Number 1: Table of Contents” 

“Editors’ Introduction” by Gary Beckman and Linda Essig, p. 1-2.

“The ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’ in Creative and Performing Arts Higher Education in Australia” by Vikki Pollard and Emily Wilson, p. 3-22.

“Social Bricolage in Arts Entrepreneurship: Building a Jazz Society from Scratch” by Stephen B. Preece, p. 23-34.

“Placemaking and Social Equity: Expanding the Framework of Creative Placemaking” by Debra Webb, p. 35-48.

Book Reviews:

“Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Changing Currents in Education and Public Life” edited by Lynn Book and David Peter Phillips, reviewed by Susan Badger Booth, p. 49-50. 

“Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development” edited by Michael Rushton with a foreword by Rocco Landesman, reviewed by Mark A. Hager, p. 51-53.

ARTIVATE: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 3 Number 2 -- Table of Contents:

“Editor's Introduction to Volume 3, Number 2” by Linda Essig and Joseph Roberts, p. 1-2. 

“How Is Damien Hirst a Cultural Entrepreneur?” by Marisa Enhuber, p. 3-20. 

“Responding to the Needs and Challenges of Arts Entrepreneurs: An Exploratory Study of Arts Entrepreneurship in North Carolina Higher Education” by Dianne H.B. Welsh, Tamaki Onishi, Ruth H. DeHoog, and Sumera Syed, p. 21-37.

“Daily Blogging for a Year: A "Lean" Pathway to Launching a Web-based Business” by Julia Griffey, p. 39-50.

Book Review:

“Social Intrapreneurism and All That Jazz: How Business Innovators are Helping to Build a More Sustainable World” by David Grayson, Melody McLaren, and Heiko Spitzeck, Foreword by John Elkington, p. 51-53

ARTIVATE: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Volume 4 Number 1 -- Table of Contents:

“Artivate Volume 4 Number 1: Table of Contents” 

“Editor’s Introduction” by Joseph Roberts, p.1.

“Perspectives on Arts Entrepreneurship Part 1” by Andrew Taylor, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, and Linda Essig, p. 3-7.

“Creativities, Innovation, And Networks In Garage Punk Rock: A Case Study Of The Eruptörs” by Gareth Dylan Smith and Alex Gillett, p. 9-24.

“Creative Toronto: Harnessing The Economic Development Power Of Arts & Culture” by Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller, p. 25-48.

Book Review:

“Performing Policy: How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave)” by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, review by Neville Vakharia, p. 49-52.

This study investigates the impact of urban form and landscaping type on the mid-afternoon microclimate in semi-arid Phoenix, Arizona. The goal is to find effective urban form and design strategies to ameliorate temperatures during the summer months. We simulated near-ground air temperatures for typical residential neighborhoods in Phoenix using the three-dimensional microclimate model ENVI-met. The model was validated using weather observations from the North Desert Village (NDV) landscape experiment, located on the Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus. The NDV is an ideal site to determine the model's input parameters, since it is a controlled environment recreating three prevailing residential landscape types in the Phoenix metropolitan area (mesic, oasis, and xeric).

After validation, we designed five neighborhoods with different urban forms that represent a realistic cross-section of typical residential neighborhoods in Phoenix. The scenarios follow the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification scheme after Stewart and Oke. We then combined the neighborhoods with three landscape designs and, using ENVI-met, simulated microclimate conditions for these neighborhoods for a typical summer day. Results were analyzed in terms of mid-afternoon air temperature distribution and variation, ventilation, surface temperatures, and shading. Findings show that advection is important for the distribution of within-design temperatures and that spatial differences in cooling are strongly related to solar radiation and local shading patterns. In mid-afternoon, dense urban forms can create local cool islands. Our approach suggests that the LCZ concept is useful for planning and design purposes.

The City of Phoenix (Arizona, USA) developed a Tree and Shade Master Plan and a Cool Roofs initiative to ameliorate extreme heat during the summer months in their arid city. This study investigates the impact of the City's heat mitigation strategies on daytime microclimate for a pre-monsoon summer day under current climate conditions and two climate change scenarios. We assessed the cooling effect of trees and cool roofs in a Phoenix residential neighborhood using the microclimate model ENVI-met. First, using xeric landscaping as a base, we created eight tree planting scenarios (from 0% canopy cover to 30% canopy cover) for the neighborhood to characterize the relationship between canopy cover and daytime cooling benefit of trees. In a second set of simulations, we ran ENVI-met for nine combined tree planting and landscaping scenarios (mesic, oasis, and xeric) with regular roofs and cool roofs under current climate conditions and two climate change projections. For each of the 54 scenarios, we compared average neighborhood mid-afternoon air temperatures and assessed the benefits of each heat mitigation measure under current and projected climate conditions. Findings suggest that the relationship between percent canopy cover and air temperature reduction is linear, with 0.14 °C cooling per percent increase in tree cover for the neighborhood under investigation. An increase in tree canopy cover from the current 10% to a targeted 25% resulted in an average daytime cooling benefit of up to 2.0 °C in residential neighborhoods at the local scale. Cool roofs reduced neighborhood air temperatures by 0.3 °C when implemented on residential homes. The results from this city-specific mitigation project will inform messaging campaigns aimed at engaging the city decision makers, industry, and the public in the green building and urban forestry initiatives.

Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme – making evaluation and experiments objects of learning.

There has been a wide range of low-carbon solutions proposed to mitigate climate change. However, such measures must be compatible with the local environment and living standards of residents to be brought to fruition. Measures that adversely affect residential environments will be difficult to implement, so the impacts of measures on the local environment must be taken into consideration during implementation. This study assessed the effects on urban heat islands of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, as one environmental impact associated with climate change. A simulated assessment was conducted, using an urban canopy model coupled with a building energy model (CM-BEM), to evaluate the effects of five specific measures: solar shading of windows using curtains and blinds, improvement of the thermal insulation of building walls and roof surfaces, implementation of energy-saving measures related to indoor appliances, installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, and adjustment of preset cooling temperatures. The study focused on these effects as they occur within typical urban districts of office buildings, fire-resistant housing, and wooden housing. Results indicated that many of the energy-saving measures have slight temperature lowering effects, but solar panel installation and improved heat insulation, both associated with changes in surface heat balances, tend to raise daytime temperatures to some extent. However, effects on daytime temperatures were in the range of 0.1–0.2 °C and, as such, none of the CO2 reduction measures considered was deemed a significant factor in raising urban temperatures.