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Creative Regional Strategies

Creative Regional Strategies. March 28, 2011. City Size and the Creative Class. City Size & the Creative Class. Workers in creativity-oriented occupations are concentrated in small number of city regions. Creative Jobs as a Percent of Total Employment.

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Creative Regional Strategies

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  1. Creative Regional Strategies March 28, 2011

  2. City Size and the Creative Class

  3. City Size & the Creative Class

  4. Workers in creativity-oriented occupations are concentrated in small number of city regions

  5. Creative Jobs as a Percent of Total Employment

  6. Service Class Jobs as a Percent of Total Employment

  7. Working Class Jobs as a Percent of Total Employment

  8. Agricultural Jobs as a Percent of Total Employment

  9. Self-Employed

  10. The Problem a (non) City Is:The Distribution of Creative Workers

  11. US Metro Areas (Total Creative)

  12. US Metro Areas (under 500,000)

  13. US Counties

  14. US Counties (under 100,000)

  15. Ontario CSDs (over 100 creative)

  16. Ontario CSDs (under 100,000)

  17. All Geographies (over 100 workers)

  18. All Geographies (over 100)

  19. All Geographies (over 100) Above Upper?? Upper Bound?? Lower Bound??

  20. Greatest Positive Residuals

  21. (Inverse) Distance Weighted Creative Class • Sum (for all CSDs) • Total CC ÷ distance away (km) • Gravity weighted • Total CC ÷ (distance away (km))2

  22. Regressing Total Creative Class

  23. Regressing Logged Creative Class

  24. Regressing Percent Creative Class

  25. Regressing Total Creative Class - Gravity

  26. Regressing Logged Creative Class - Gravity

  27. Regressing Percent Creative Class - Gravity

  28. Takeaways (for now) • Distributions are different • All (large) versus small (rural) regions • Strong, positive relationship • Region size (logged) and SHARE creative • Bigger regions  higher share • Lower bound – steeper than average (faster) • Outside (above) the “schmeer” • (select) Urban Centres • University Towns (some) • Rural concentrations (meds/eds/law)

  29. Takeaways (for now) • Creative Proximity - distance • Zilch, nada, nothing • Creative Proximity – gravity • Total Creative (not logged; share) • Region/Market Size • Consistent • Density • Not Really • Growth • Negative?

  30. Creative Class Theory Outside “Major” Urban Centres

  31. “Urban” Policy Urban policy is not social policy.

  32. “Urban” Policy Urban policy is not social policy. Urban policy is economic policy.

  33. “Urban” Policy Urban policy is not social policy. Urban policy is economic policy. What happens when you’re not “urban”? What’s your economic policy?

  34. “Urban” Policy What about “non-urban” areas?? Think Big Look Big Use a shotgun, not a rifle Secret strategy #4

  35. Think Big

  36. Connecting the Disconnected

  37. Look Big

  38. Use a Shotgun not a Rifle

  39. Secret Strategy #$

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