CRI Week 2
10 flashcards
- Creative Class
- o People in science, engineering, architecture, design, education, arts, music, entertainment § Economic function is to create new ideas, technology, and content
- Creative Professionals
- in business and finance, law, health care, and related fields
- Golden age
- Post WWII, nuclear families, gender role, safety, union, social mobility, jobs, income
- Hole in the Donut
- Urban Decay traditionally located on peripheries of cities
- Suburbanization and deindustrialization
- Causes of hole in the donut problem
- Industrial Decline
- Especially since 1971 recession, North American economies rapidly de-industrializing
- Suburbanization and Demographic Shifts
- Great migration causing white flight, cheaper to own then rent
- Construction of new highway systems
- Cars driving economy, demand for infastructure, highways causing displacement, harm to communities
- New City Planning Ideals
- Density, transport
- Richard Florida
- Urban theorist, author of The rise of the creative class