Creative class related Links
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Joel Kotkin - Uncool Cities
From London and Berlin to Sydney and San Francisco,
civic authorities agree that the key to urban prosperity
is appealing to the "hipster set" of gays, twentysomethings and "creatives."
But the only evidence for this idea
comes from the dot-com boom of the late 1990s—and that period is over.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7072
Mike Davis - The Predators of New Orleans
Catastrophic new gentrification opportunities in New
Orleans
http://mondediplo.com/2005/10/02katrina
Richard Florida's mad world
Florida and the creative class
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html
http://www.creativelondon.org.uk/
Culture at the Heart of Regeneration. UK gov
report on culture and regeneration
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The Curse of the Creative Class
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_curse.html
NYtimes.com - State funded indie-bands... 11/11/06
NYtimes.com - Cities compete to be hip... 25/11/06
Jamie Peck - Creative Class Critique
"Struggling with the Creative Class"
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"The Creativity Fix"
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-06-28-peck-en.html
Gentrification Articles
Space Invaders - the privatisation of public space. Article
by Anna Minton
http://www.rics.org/Environmentalandlandconsultancy/Planninganddevelopment/Spaceinvaders.htm
Anna Minton's report on the privatisation of public space in the UK
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Regeneration: The culture killer BBC article on culture and regen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2963356.stm
Download Neil Smith's Uneven Development: Nature,
Capital
and the Production of Space
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/about_uneven.html
NYtimes.com - East Village gentrification article 13/11/05
NYtimes.com - Paul Allen's plans for Seattle 21/01/06
Gentrification in the New Urban America
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featlydersen_7_p.htm
Anarchists as gentrificators
http://citypaper.net/articles/031501/cb.citybeat.anarchist.shtml
"Artists and Yuppies working together"
http://www.riverwestcurrents.org/2002/July/000036.html
A sign on East 4th Street. Keith Meyers/The New York Times