The Pittsburgh Renaissance and the Future of Adelaide

Parkin, Andrew; Hardcastle, Leonie

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“…Formerly a booming industrial center that accounted for up to half of the nation's steel production in the 1950s, "Steel City" was hit hard by the collapse of the American manufacturing industry in the 1970s and 1980s and lost nearly 50% of its labor force population in the process (Beissel et al, 2014). Forced to reinvent itself, Pittsburgh has undergone what some have labeled the transition from rust belt to brain belt (Parkin & Hardcastle, 2019). Indeed, in the span of just a few years, by 1985, Pittsburgh's profound transformation resulted in the city-famously reputed to be a dirty, industrial place -being named the "Most Liveable City" in the United States (Beissel et al, 2014).…”

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Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural openness: A 9-year study across 199 cities.

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Gosling

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American Psychologist

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Accumulating evidence suggests that culture changes in response to shifting socioecological conditions; economic development is a particularly potent driver of such change. Previous research has shown that economic development can induce slow but steady cultural changes within large cultural entities (e.g., countries). Here we propose that economically driven culture change can occur rapidly, particularly in smaller cultural entities (e.g., cites). Drawing on work in cultural dynamics, urban economics, and geographical psychology, we hypothesize that changes in local housing prices-reflecting changing availability of local amenities-can induce rapid shifts in local cultures of Openness. We propose two mechanisms that might underlie such cultural shifts: selective migration (i.e., people selectively moving to cities that offer certain amenities) and social acculturation (i.e., people adapting to changing amenities in their city). Based on trait Openness scores of 1,946,752 U.S. residents, we track annual changes in local Openness across 199 cities for 9 years (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014). We link these data to annual information on local housing markets, an established proxy for local amenities. To test interdependencies between the time series of local housing markets and Openness, we use Panel Vector Autoregression modeling. In line with our hypothesis, we find robust evidence that rising housing costs predict positive shifts in local Openness but not vice versa. Additional analyses leveraging participants' duration of residence in their city suggest that both selective migration and social acculturation contribute to shifts in local Openness. Our study offers a new window onto the rapid changes of cultures at local levels. Public Significance StatementEconomic developments in countries prompt cultural changes that typically unfold over decades and centuries. Here, we investigate the possibility of more rapid cultural shifts in smaller entities, finding that housing market dynamics predict significant changes in city cultures within a few years. Our results highlight rising local amenities as a key driver of local cultures of Openness, which in turn affect a wide variety of political, economic, social, and health-related outcomes.

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Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural openness: A 9-year study across 199 cities.

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Gosling

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American Psychologist

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“…Formerly a booming industrial center that accounted for up to half of the nation's steel production in the 1950s, "Steel City" was hit hard by the collapse of the American manufacturing industry in the 1970s and 1980s and lost nearly 50% of its labor force population in the process (Beissel, Giardina, & Neman, 2014). Forced to reinvent itself, Pittsburgh has undergone what some have labeled the transition from rust belt to brain belt (Parkin & Hardcastle, 2019). Indeed, in the span of just a few years, by 1985, Pittsburgh's profound transformation resulted in the city -famously reputed to be a dirty, industrial place -being named the "Most Liveable City" in the USA (Beissel et al, 2014).…”

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Local Housing Market Dynamics Predict Rapid Shifts in Cultural Openness: A Nine-Year Study across 199 Cities

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Accumulating evidence suggests that culture changes in response to shifting socioecological conditions; economic development is a particularly potent driver of such change. Previous re-search has shown that economic development can induce slow but steady cultural changes within large cultural entities (e.g., countries). Here we propose that economically driven culture change can occur rapidly, particularly in smaller cultural entities (e.g., cites). Drawing on work in cultural dynamics, urban economics, and geographical psychology, we hypothesize that changes in local housing prices – reflecting changing availability of local amenities – can induce rapid shifts in local cultures of Openness. We propose two mechanisms that might underlie such cultural shifts: selective migration (i.e., people selectively moving to cities that offer certain amenities) and social acculturation (i.e., people adapting to changing amenities in their city). Based on trait Openness scores of 1,946,752 U.S. residents, we track annual changes in local Openness across 199 cities for nine years (2006-2014). We link these data to annual infor-mation on local housing markets, an established proxy for local amenities. To test interdepend-encies between the time series of local housing markets and Openness, we use Panel Vector Autoregression modelling. In line with our hypothesis, we find robust evidence that rising housing costs predict positive shifts in local Openness but not vice versa. Additional analyses leveraging participants’ duration of residence in their city suggest that both selective migration and social acculturation contribute to shifts in local Openness. Our study thus offers a new window onto the rapid changes of cultures at local levels.

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The Pittsburgh Renaissance and the Future of Adelaide

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Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural openness: A 9-year study across 199 cities.

Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural openness: A 9-year study across 199 cities.

Local Housing Market Dynamics Predict Rapid Shifts in Cultural Openness: A Nine-Year Study across 199 Cities

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