Amenities Drive Urban Growth

By T. Clark, R. Lloyd, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, Pushpam Jain. 2002

558 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Urban Studies

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4. Richard Florida
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7. R. Whisler
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Citations in the corpus

• CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND URBAN REVITALIZATION (2007, background): “Creative class strategies concentrate on quality of life issues and lifestyle amenities to attract the “creative class”-- a wide ranging classification of highly educated workers and “knowledge-based professionals” including such diverse occupations as software designers, architects, artists, writer”
• There Goes the Metro: How and Why Bohemians, Artists and Gays Affect Regional Housing Values (2010, background): “Several other studies (Lloyd and Clark, 2001; Clark et al., 2002; Florida, 2002a, 2002b, 2002c; Clark, 2003) document the role of amenities and lifestyle—in the form of entertainment, nightlife, culture and so on—in attracting educated populations who can pay more for housing.”
• Middle-range theories of land system change (2018, background): “Paralleling forest transition theories, urban theories explain cycles of urban growth, decline and renewal (Clark et al., 2002).”
• Smart cities: implications of urban planning for human resource development (2011, background): “( 2002 ) claim that amenities in the form of urban attractions, such as parks, art galleries and orchestras, drive urban growth in cities that become ‘entertainment machines’.”
• Quality of Life and the Migration of the College‐Educated: A Life‐Course Approach (2008, background): “Linneman (1979), and a flood of later studies repeatedly has confirmed the influence of amenities on migration (e.g., Clark and Hunter 1992; Clark, Knapp, and White 1996; Clark, Lloyd, and Jain 2002; Porell 1982; Rappaport 2007).”
• Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: a critical review and future research agenda (2012, background): “…Foster (1977) emphasized the importance of investments in social infrastructure for people rather than only for firms, others (for example, Clark et al., 2002) highlighted the importance of public and lifestyle amenities in cities to attract talented high-tech staff, and Portney (2003)…”
• A World in Emergence: Notes Toward a Resynthesis of Urban-Economic Geography for the 21st Century (2011, background): ““consumer cities,” where urban growth and prosperity are no longer rooted in production, as such, but in the hedonic attractions and amenities of cities, which in turn foster in-migration, particularly of well-qualified workers (cf. Glaeser et al., 2001; Clark et al., 2002).”