Archive for the 'creative class' Category
Whose “quality of place”?, transportation history, and Houston mixed-use
Closed Published by Tory Gattis September 3rd, 2007 on Houston StrategiesThree miscellaneous pass-alongs today:A blog post comparing creative class rankings with domestic migration census data, finding an inverse relationship: a higher CC ranking tends to have lower, or reverse, migration. By far the most migration is to o…
Houston vs. how Americans want to live
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesDavid Brooks had an extremely insightful column last week in the NY Times on what Americans are looking for in their ideal living environment. I liked the opening in particular: You may not know it to look at them, but urban planners are human and hav…
Houston a “brain hub” creating middle-class jobs?
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThe Wall Street Journal recently profiled Austin’s power to create middle class jobs, something the rest of the nation is struggling with. But not Houston. If you check out their graph, you’ll note that Houston and Austin are neck-and-neck in middle-skill job growth since 2001, and well ahead of the rest of the pack, including Dallas (surprisingly). Let’s look at the key excerpts first, then
CA columnist on Houston as an Open City of Opportunity
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThis columnist from Orange County, CA recently visited Houston for the Preserving the American Dream conference, and he liked what he saw here. I was originally planning to just highlight excerpts, but I liked so much of it, it ended up being pretty m…
How the crash will - and won’t - reshape America
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesA couple months ago, Richard Florida (of Creative Class fame) published a major article in The Atlantic on ‘How the Crash Will Reshape America’ (hat tip to Deborah). A short summary of his thesis is here, and here are some cool interactive maps of pat…