NYU Study Uncovers the Keys to Keeping NYC Competitive: Innovation, Creativity & Investment
In 2009, Brock University’s Niagara Community Observatory produced a policy brief that pointed out the main reason Niagara had a low proportion of young people was because we are not attracting our share of young people from other areas.
Beyond the interventions that Sampson describes, we need an urban policy that is attuned to this new reality—and that can help to change it. What we need is a new growth model that is as ambitious and as far-reaching as our post-World War II commitment was to creating a middle class. We need to re-knit the safety net and ensure that everyone has access to good, family-supporting jobs that are the equivalents of my father’s factory job.
Over 300 people turned out at the College for Creative Studies to participate in CREATE: Detroit, the inaugural ideas fest on place making and cities, led by world-renowned urbanist and professor Richard Florida and sponsored by Rock Ventures.
The article marries Michael Porter’s industrial cluster theory of traded and local clusters to Richard Florida’
s occupational approach of creative and routine workers to gain a better understanding of the process of economic development. By combining these two approaches, four major industrial – occupational categories are identified.