CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Richard Florida, Creative Class, Ckxt-Dt
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Creative class thesis (richard florida: important geographer he argues in order to susrvive in post industrial period, cities need to improve in creative class. The three cities within toronto: report: a study looking at inequality in toronto an their spatial expression, the method: got money to look at urban inequality in toronto, data uses: census data, the changes over time: longitudinal. Economic exclusion: which regulates us: employment and labour market, in and out exclusion, even if we do have employment, there is high wage high skill jobs and low wage low skilled jobs. Political exclusion: some institutions that regulate whether we are in or out: voting, citizenship, it doesn"t mean that you have to be citizen to be politically active. Scio- cultural exclusion: what institution: minority groups cannot practice their culture, how do they express their culture: language, religion. Spatial practices can be reregulated through physical, legal, mnetal space and social control.
