People both live and work in cities. And where they choose to live
shifts where and how they work. Amenities enter as enticements to
bring new residents or tourists to a city. Amenities have thus
become new public concerns for many cities in the US and much of
Northern Europe. Old ways of thinking, old paradigms - such as
"location, location, location" and "land, labour, capital, and
management generate economic development" - are too simple. So is
"human capital drives development". To these earlier questions, we
add: "how do amenities and related consumption attract talented
people, who in turn drive the classic processes which make cities
grow?" This new question is critical for policy makers. Urban
public officials, business, and nonprofit leaders are using
culture, entertainment, and urban amenities to (seek to) enhance
their locations - for present and future residents, tourists,
conventioneers, and shoppers. This volume explores how consumption
and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal"
causal process. That is, many chapters analyse how consumption and
entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa. It details
the impacts of opera, used bookstores, brew pubs, bicycle events,
Starbucks' coffee shops, gay residents and other factors on changes
in jobs, population, inventions, and more. It interprets these
processes by showing how they add new insights from economics,
sociology, political science, public policy, and geography.
Considerable evidence is presented about how consumption,
amenities, and culture drive urban policy - by encouraging people
to move to or from different cities and regions. The book also
explores how different amenities attract the innovative persons who
are catalysts in making the modern economy and high tech hum.
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