How do we maintain a sustainable creative community in Austin, Texas amidst an increasingly expensive cost of living and an influx of value-extracting cool cultural transformations?
A book by Joshua Long derived from his work as a student at UT. Good background and groundwork for the definition of Austin weird and clues to the conditions that foster it.
The planning/urban development literature and journalistic press are littered with buzz words like creative class and inclusive gentrification. We hear them often in the boosterism of Austin and its kindred sister cities.
However, in conventional use, the words are not very helpful as analytic tools. The boosters have not or cannot link the words empirically to the facts on the ground. Using Shields' playbook analogy, we'd consider these booster-athletes junior varsity candidates, way short of the player-coach level of scholarly creativity. Further, offers the helpful distinction that one should approach a lit review as both process and product. The process is particularly important when one is working to clarify and ground empirically abstract words/ideas like creativity, gentrification, and inclusion.
Lisa Bates authored a 2013 study and report for the Portland, OR, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability . It focuses on gentrification and displacement, and might interest you.. Also, there's a four part PBS/KLRU series (on Sunday afternoon), now underway, focused on Building Healthy Communities.
The planning/urban development literature and journalistic press are littered with buzz words like creative class and inclusive gentrification. We hear them often in the boosterism of Austin and its kindred sister cities.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in conventional use, the words are not very helpful as analytic tools. The boosters have not or cannot link the words empirically to the facts on the ground. Using Shields' playbook analogy, we'd consider these booster-athletes junior varsity candidates, way short of the player-coach level of scholarly creativity. Further, offers the helpful distinction that one should approach a lit review as both process and product. The process is particularly important when one is working to clarify and ground empirically abstract words/ideas like creativity, gentrification, and inclusion.
Lisa Bates authored a 2013 study and report for the Portland, OR, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability . It focuses on gentrification and displacement, and might interest you.. Also, there's a four part PBS/KLRU series (on Sunday afternoon), now underway, focused on Building Healthy Communities.