Culture in the Rise of Tiger Economies: Scottish Expatriates in Dublin and the ‘Creative Class’ Thesis

Boyle, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00661.x

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“…While for Florida, members of the 'creative class' are highly mobile, the results point to two significant factors. First, and in line with previous research on expatriate workers moving to Dublin (Boyle, 2006), our results emphasise the continued importance of classic, or 'hard', factors, such as the availability of employment, in the selection of Dublin by migrants working within creative and knowledge industries. Moreover, these 'hard' factors also continued to be of primary importance in selecting a residential location.…”

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Residential preferences of the ‘creative class’?

Lawton

Murphy

Redmond

2013

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Abstract. The desire for 'vibrant', 'bohemian' neighbourhoods forms a focal point of the amenity preferences of Richard Florida's 'creative class' thesis. Here, a vibrant street culture, which includes cafes and restaurants spilling on to the pavement, is implied as being of key importance in the selection of a residential area for creative and knowledge workers. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, this paper examines the residential preferences of the 'creative class' in Dublin, Ireland. The results illustrate the continued importance of classic factors in residential decision-making, including housing cost, accessibility and travel-time to place of employment. Moreover, the results also illustrate how changes in the life-cycle, including the decision to have a family, have a direct influence on their residential location choice. While there is a tendency for younger workers to select the city centre, older workers predominantly opt to live in suburban areas with good transport connections to the city centre or their place of employment.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Residential preferences of the ‘creative class’?

Lawton

Murphy

Redmond

2013

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“…The notion of a mobile creative class that cities must attract to be competitive in the global economy has been criticized for being a mass-marketed urban neoliberal development scheme (Peck 2005). It has also been criticized as being a fuzzy concept with a questionable causal logic (Boyle 2006;Markusen 2006). Does the presence of the highlyskilled foster economic growth or does economic growth stimulate highly-skilled in-migration?…”

Section: The Mobility Of Highly-skilled Migrantsmentioning

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Migrants, markets and multinationals: competition among world cities for the highly skilled

Ewers

2007

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Urban areas compete with one another for people, goods, capital, ideas and other inputs of economic activity. Under the rubric of globalization, instead of only maintaining or improving the initial stock of assets in a city, the power of a place to attract outside flows of economic activity from elsewhere is increasingly important to economic development. Similarly, global or world cities are characterized as the command and control points through which these global economic flows operate. In response to the heightened mobility of highly-skilled labor across national borders, research has begun to examine the role of international human capital as an economic flow. This paper will examine the role of places in determining where the highly-skilled go in the global economy by viewing global city command and control functions as requiring unique labor flows. By reviewing the evidence found in the literature, we can better understand the potential for urban areas to compete for highly-skilled labor in the global economy. Known indicators of place attractiveness are assessed to examine the relationship between the economic trajectories of cities and their labor requirements. Cities are situated between firms and states as the key place-based actors which influence the mobility of highly-skilled labor. Finally, the paper also examines measurement issues and methodological problems in creating indices of world cities as well as explores possibilities for new research.

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“…One of those changes is the necessity among city centres to adapt to new types of businesses and spatial concentrations of firms and organizations (Hutton, 2009). A contemporary example is the public funding of new cultural downtowns, museums and exhibition centres aimed at attracting visitors and potential inhabitants, which has been pursued in Dublin, Ireland (Boyle, 2006), amongst numerous of other cities. Other examples include transforming abandoned industrial buildings to workplaces for young artists in the Netherlands (Marlet and Woerkens, 2005), moving TV-production facilities from the capital to the peripheral north in the UK (Christophers, 2008), the creation of a government-run Creative Industries Task Force in London (Pratt, 2004) or labelling an economically lagging capital Berlin, Germany 'city of talents' (Kra¨tke, 2004).…”

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On the waterfront: Studying the development of residences and workplaces at Norra Älvstranden, Gothenburg, Sweden

Borggren

Ström

2014

Local Economy

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Following economic restructuring, waterfront redevelopment emerges as a post-industrial option for struggling cities and regions that will boost economic growth. If functioning according to plan, publicly initiated and privately executed waterfront redevelopment will attract educated and highincome earning residents as it simultaneously transforms derelict industrial grounds into residential areas and science parks. The recent financial crisis of 2008 has seen severe turbulence in the urban economy resulting in, for example, foreclosures and drops in real-estate value. Drawn on this background, the aim of this paper is to shed light on whether a specific place-based activity: the establishment of a redeveloped waterfront in Gothenburg, Sweden, facilitating residences and workplaces, has attracted human capital in the form of residents and workers often termed 'talented' and 'creative'. This paper uses a unique longitudinal micro database (GILDA) containing information on residence, work, age, etc. covering the entire Swedish population between the years 1990 and 2008 and focuses on flows of in-and out-migration of two human capital subgroups: the arts-educated bohemians and the engineering-educated consultants. Results show that the waterfront attracts resident consultants and not bohemians, while the growth of workplaces stagnate and decline following the global economic recession of 2008. The paper contributes to knowledge on the complexity of redevelopment and how difficult it is to manage this process.

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Culture in the Rise of Tiger Economies: Scottish Expatriates in Dublin and the ‘Creative Class’ Thesis

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Cited by 48 publications

References 51 publications

Residential preferences of the ‘creative class’?

Residential preferences of the ‘creative class’?

Migrants, markets and multinationals: competition among world cities for the highly skilled

On the waterfront: Studying the development of residences and workplaces at Norra Älvstranden, Gothenburg, Sweden

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