Every city would benefit greatly by seeking to create healthy Street Performance - community gathering areas in its public spaces.      Street Performance in every city would create an art renaissance the likes of which have never been seen in this country. If all communities have areas where people are exposed to the arts in action, and performers feel support and encouragement, then everyone will begin to place more value on the arts and human expression. People will begin to understand the nature of arts as an integral part of their lives and begin to imitate the actions they see before them. Their children will be encouraged to be more playful and expressive.    Currently, the U.S. culture is in a phase of extreme commercial development. Global chain stores and the ability to almost instantly construct high-end housing in areas which show the slightest promise of return for developers is a constant threat to the establishment of cultural centers. As soon as artists attract the public and upgrade an area some one figures how to charge more for the use of the surrounding properties.    This usually attracts tenants who are under more financial strain and are more critical of others in their surrounding area. These forces are much more organized than the performers and so, most often, the performer losses out in a contest of influence.    Government´s inefficient use of funds (and people's demand for more benefits in spite of their basic cheapness) has driven cities to find creative tax revenue sources. Powerful resource management agencies of government with sophisticated business managers who's job it is too make the most money possible for the city have taken on a life of their own. These have, perhaps, lost track of human priorities in the use of public space.      All artists need to become more organized and mutually supportive. Street Performers need to understand exactly what laws govern their actions, how the bureaucratic system in their city works and who all the players are in that system.      Performers need to find each other and begin the process of putting aside their differences and finding their common interest. (Usually how to better survive and how to effect local government.) Although many performers are fierce individuals, there is strength in numbers and self-interest is best served by the mutual survival of the group.