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Formemes are reproducible bits of urban form.  Though they circulate through various mechanisms, urban policies are key conduits through which forms are transmitted.  This study investigates how urban forms spread through an examination of public art policies.  Using a corpus of hundreds of policy documents from over 25 cities covering over forty years we pursue three major research questions:

1) What are the main ways that these documents speak about Public Art?

2) When and where these ways are taken up? 

3) What are the determinants that shape the taking-up of any of these possibilities?