Social Diversity and Economic Development in the Metropolis

Thomas, June Manning; Darnton, J.

doi:10.1177/0885412206292259

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“…Comparing creative and noncreative households in Bangkok, Thailand, Mansury, Tontisirin, and Anantsuksomsri (2012) concluded that creative households were more likely to reside near rail stations, 'top schools', shopping malls, and public parks within the city's 'inner-ring.' Crucially, to the authors' knowledge no study has yet empirically examined diversity as a potential factor in the intra-urban residential location of creative class workers, despite the claim that openness and tolerance are key aspects of the creative class ethos (Florida, 2002;Thomas & Darnton, 2006).…”

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Neighborhood diversity and the creative class in Chicago

Bereitschaft

Cammack

2015

Applied Geography

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a b s t r a c tRichard Florida's creative class theory posits that highly skilled workers with creative-or knowledgeintensive occupations are particularly sensitive to 'quality of place', a key component of which is an open and tolerant attitude toward different peoples, cultures, and lifestyles. While diversity, as a proxy for tolerance, has proven to be a relatively weak pull-factor at the inter-metropolitan level, the potential role of neighborhood-level diversity in the residential location of creative class workers has yet to be explored empirically. In this study we use ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and geographically weighted regression (GWR) to test the hypothesis that there exists significant associations between particular types of neighborhood diversity (i.e., sexual orientation, language, race, and income) and the proportion of workers with specific creative class occupations. The results of our Chicago case study suggest a significant positive relationship between the creative class and the proportion of gay households and income diversity, but not racial or linguistic diversity. Overall, diversity appears to play a limited role in predicting where creative class workers reside, though the GWR analysis indicated substantial spatial variation in the strength of association between neighborhood diversity and creative class share across the study area.

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Neighborhood diversity and the creative class in Chicago

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Cammack

2015

Applied Geography

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“…For an attempt to operationalise all Jacobs's conditions, see for instance Sung et al (2015). 11 For the critical debate on this point and discussion on empirical evidence, see for instance Desrochers (2001a), Storper and Manville (2006), Thomas and Darnton (2006), Leppälä (2011a, 2011b), Syrett and Sepulveda (2011), Kemeny (2012), Nathan (2015 and Rodriguez-Pose and Hardy (2015).…”

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Urban density after Jane Jacobs: the crucial role of diversity and emergence

Moroni

2016

City Territ Archit

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Background: In the early part of the twentieth century, planning theory and practice always voiced strong opposition to density. The error of this insistence was persuasively argued by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s. Subsequently, planning theory and practice came to recognise the importance of density, but this return to favour requires remaining constantly alert to the possible dangers and pitfalls. Methods:Critically considering the traditional and contemporary urban planning literature and the empirical evidence in the recent economic and geographical research, this article investigates the whys and wherefores of density in urban planning. It addresses two main questions: Is urban density really desirable (and why)? Is it effectively manageable (and how)?Results: Density per se is meaningless unless it is a tool or condition for achieving something further. And even if the instrumental function of density were to be acknowledged, it is crucial to take into account that density is not solely (or merely) a tool which-in certain conditions-can be useful in reducing commute times and minimising the encroachment on undeveloped land. Its primary advantage concerns favouring the concentrated diverse admix of human preferences, tastes, abilities, know-how, uses, activities, and so forth. Conclusions:After having expressly laboured to avoid it for so long, the aim is not to create density directly, but to open the door and allow density to happen in our cities, thanks to more abstract and general planning rules.

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“…Studies show that residents of gentrified properties are, more often than not, already city dwellers, merely relocating to better accommodations [56,59,[62][63]. In more than half the cases, the gentry are middle-class Blacks, immigrants from Asia and Latin America, gays, liberal academics, artists/bohemians, or others who are critical of the status quo [4,61,[64][65][66]. None of these groups are viewed by Conservative Elite as part of their coalition or constituency.…”

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“…In other cases, rentiers may be merely acting as the Conservative's protector of a symbolically important or prestigious space in the city, or reclaiming it from the 'other.' Examples of this include historic or waterfront district redevelopments that are meant to appeal to tourists, rather than city residents [4,65,67].…”

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Political Power, Collective Memory, and American Central Cities: The Discourses of the Conservative Elite`s Counter-Memory of the City

Jacobs¹

2008

TOUSJ

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This study examines the social construction of collective memory regarding American cities. Inspired by postmodern theory, both critical and urban, it argues that, in its efforts to expand its political power, the Conservative Elite has successfully waged a thirty year "mnemonic war" over the public memory of America's central cities. It describes how in their attack, the Conservatives strategically utilized four vehicles of public discourse: political rhetoric, mass media depictions, think tank scholarship, and spatial semiosis. In doing so, the Conservatives have crafted a false consciousness or counter-memory of the city, a depiction which has served to diminish the social and economic value of U.S. central cities, and ultimately, characterized them as Foucaultian heterotopias of deviance (anti-utopias). By recasting the collective memory of the city, the Conservatives have harnessed and defused its historical and present power, squashed any related dissent, and expanded their influence across the metropolitan, national, and international landscapes.

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Social Diversity and Economic Development in the Metropolis

Cited by 56 publications

References 58 publications

Neighborhood diversity and the creative class in Chicago

Neighborhood diversity and the creative class in Chicago

Urban density after Jane Jacobs: the crucial role of diversity and emergence

Political Power, Collective Memory, and American Central Cities: The Discourses of the Conservative Elite`s Counter-Memory of the City

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