"A bigger, denser city in general increases the rate of innovation, increases the rate of start-up, increases the rate of productivity. At the same time, the bigger, the denser, the more knowledge-intensive increases the rate of inequality, increases the rate of economic segregation, makes housing less affordable. So it's a two-sided monster."
Paul Solman on the PBS Newshour talks with Richard Florida about "winner-take-all urbanism."
Thursday, June 01, 2017
"The Very Thing That Is Driving Our Economy Forward Is Creating These Divides"
Labels:
class,
deindustrialization,
economics,
New York,
sociology,
technology,
twenty-first century,
urban history
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