PLAN105 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading 3: Richard Florida, Creative Class, Blue-Collar Worker
17 Jan 2018
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Cities are dying; suburbs are our future economic centres. ability to spur growth. Skills, knowledge, and creativity power economic growth of cities, regions, states, and nations. Cities and density offshoot economic growth: denser places with bigger cities are, to put it simply, richer. First, a high share of skills, creativity, and knowledge do lift the wages of every class or group of workers creative, service, and blue collar alike. Joel kotkin debates the failure of the so-called creative class of intellects and artists remaking. Richard florida concedes the limits of the creative class. Creative-class idea (overhyped idea) only boosted real estate values. (cid:498)between 2000 and 2010, the urban core areas of the 51 largest metropolitan areas within two miles of the city"s center added a total of 206,000 residents. But the surrounding rings, between two and five miles from the core, actually lost 272,000.
