Urban Amenities: Lakes, Opera, and Juice Bars: Do They Drive Development?
Several theories of the new politics and new economy suggest that amenities drive urban development. Do they?
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Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago
Arts, Cultural Scenes, and Urbanism: New Directions in Research
Innovation has long been seen as crucial to the post-industrial knowledge economy and the cities where it is flourishing. Arts and culture -- once minor concerns compared with education, crime, and transportation -- have assumed an increasingly central position in urban policy and planning debates.
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Neil Scott Kleiman, Director, and Robin Keegan, Deputy Director, Center for an Urban Future, New York
Culture and Urban Amenities
Terry Clark (Sociology) and Lawrence Rothfield (English/Cultural Policy)
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