UNC-DCRP Best Master’s Project of 2006: Inequality in the Creative City
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Donegan, Mary
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
- Abstract
- In keeping with tradition, Carolina Planning is proud to present here an adaptation of the Department of City & Regional Planning’s 2006 Best Master’s Project, written by Ph.D. student Mary Donegan. In her award-winning article, Donegan critiques Richard Florida’s popular “Creative Class” theory for central city revitalization, the trendy notion that cities need to attract highly educated, young, white-collar workers for information-age, “creative” professions by catering specifically to the needs of these up-scale professionals. Despite some notable successes in urban revitalization, the creative class approach inherently produces a sharp increase in income inequality. Donegan’s article explains the reasons behind such inequality and proposes several city-level policies to address this problem. These proposals include the following: living wage campaigns; unionization efforts among service workers; and the use of immigrant work centers to better integrate immigrants into a city’s legal labor market.
- Date of publication
- 2007
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- Resource type
- Article
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- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 32
- Journal issue
- 2
- Page start
- 28
- Page end
- 35
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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