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...When folks try to place New York in the global economy, they immediately think of Wall Street. But that's not the whole story. In 2005 the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, issued a study of the city's cultural sector, which it defined broadly to include art, design, music, theater and dance, as well as TV and film production, architecture, publishing, fashion and even advertising. It found that taken together those professions were second only to financial services as an economic force, employing 309,000 people, or more than 8% of the New York...
...process of completing a whole arts district. Abu Dhabi is planning a vast one. But long before there was a Bilbao effect - the revitalization of that scruffy Basque port by Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum there - New York had learned to use a cultural institution for urban renewal. In the 1940s and '50s, large areas of Manhattan's Upper West Side were slums, the turf of the warring street gangs that Leonard Bernstein made famous in West Side Story. But by the early 1960s, the various components of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the first cluster of arts...
...economy. Most obviously, creative people can no longer find housing in New York within their means, even in formerly marginal neighborhoods that they pioneered, made fashionable and then unaffordable. More than that, they can't find a place to do their work. The study by the Center for an Urban Future found that almost a third of the city's "creative workforce" was self-employed, meaning that in addition to homes many of them needed their own studios, workshops, even salesrooms. And real estate is so expensive that theater groups and dance troupes can't find rehearsal space, fledgling...
...those are just small steps. In her book, Currid proposes that the city should directly subsidize artists, designers and musicians. The Center for an Urban Future wants the city to emulate London, which three years ago organized Creative London, a public-private partnership that coordinates strategies to support creative industries and offers assistance with financing, real estate and marketing...
Fitzsimmons said the schools focused on rural and urban areas in four trips during the month of November. Those trips included one targeting the South and one to the Mid-Atlantic...