Richard Florida 21 Dec
When state leaders actively undermine the interests of urban areas, the economic damage is widespread
Anti-urban states—places like Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona—have an overwhelmingly anti-city posture. They are typically controlled by a Republican governor and state legislature. These states have cut back investments in transit and affordable housing...
The chart below, which Florida developed in collaboration with his Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) colleague, Patrick Adler, arrays cities and metro areas according to this basic division. They have separated cities or metro areas into two basic categories:
> The first are large, global superstar cities and knowledge hubs
> The second are other large metros which are not quite global superstar cities or tech hubs.
SOME OF THE ZINGERS excerpted from CityLab :
> Anti-urban states have also often sought to rescind LGBTQ rights as well as women’s rights.
> Anti-urban states also increasingly seek to preempt a city’s ability to control their own destinies on issues like immigration and gun control. Initiatives like these signal to many knowledge workers that these places are not open to diverse populations, and can chill the climate for business investment
> Anti-urban states make it much harder for their cities and metro areas—places like Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix and many others—to attract and retain talent or to compete for new investments.
THE TAKE-AWAY: America’s economy will suffer and cities in anti-urban states will fall further and further behind in their ability to attract both talent and high-tech businesses that drive the knowledge economy. And that in turn could fuel more anger and resentment toward blue states and cities—exacerbating the geographic polarization that is already tearing America apart.
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The chart below, which Florida developed in collaboration with his Martin Prosperity Institute (MPI) colleague, Patrick Adler, arrays cities and metro areas according to this basic division. They have separated cities or metro areas into two basic categories:
> The first are large, global superstar cities and knowledge hubs
> The second are other large metros which are not quite global superstar cities or tech hubs.
> Anti-urban states have also often sought to rescind LGBTQ rights as well as women’s rights.
> Anti-urban states also increasingly seek to preempt a city’s ability to control their own destinies on issues like immigration and gun control. Initiatives like these signal to many knowledge workers that these places are not open to diverse populations, and can chill the climate for business investment
> Anti-urban states make it much harder for their cities and metro areas—places like Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix and many others—to attract and retain talent or to compete for new investments.
THE TAKE-AWAY: America’s economy will suffer and cities in anti-urban states will fall further and further behind in their ability to attract both talent and high-tech businesses that drive the knowledge economy. And that in turn could fuel more anger and resentment toward blue states and cities—exacerbating the geographic polarization that is already tearing America apart.
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The New NIMBYS: Call Them "New Urban Luddites" - CityLab
Apr 18, 2017 - If populism and Trump reflects the anti-urban backlash of the right, such attempts to limit high-tech development in urban centers reflects an anti-urbanism of the left. This is why there are so few New Yorks and Londons to begin with. In many aspiring cities, New Urban Luddites effectively limit and block the investments ...
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