Is the Creative Class Attracted to Tolerant Neighborhoods? Evidence from Chicago, Boston and San Diego over 2000-2009

Zhang, Yizhou

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Is the Creative Class Attracted to Tolerant Neighborhoods? Evidence from Chicago, Boston and San Diego over 2000-2009

Author(s)

Zhang, Yizhou

Contributor(s)

Hewings, Geoffrey J.D.

Issue Date

2013

Keyword(s)

• creative-class
• human capital
• amenity
• spatial cross-regressive model

Abstract

This research investigates the validity of one central creative-class claims at the sub-metropolitan level. Based on Richard Florida’s discussion of the location choices of the creative-class and other scholars’ study of the economic impacts of place-attractiveness, I hypothesized that this class is more attracted to tolerant neighborhoods than to traditional amenities, and used a spatial cross-regressive model to test it. The regression result rebuts this hypothesis and found that the creative class did not exhibit distinctive preference for amenity. I also found that immigration, which is one component of tolerance, actually drives away the creative class.

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MUP Capstone

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