My comrade-in-arms Paul Nagle has just published a paper on the economics of live/work space for artists in cities. Room for Creativity: The Role of Affordable Artists’ Live/Work Space in the New Economy is a short and accessible version of his much longer and denser thesis on the same subject. If you’re interested [...]
Today’s AM New York (a free daily here in NYC) features a prominent article by David Freedlander on the mass exodus of emerging artists from the city. It’s great to see such a mainstream, populist publication drawing attention to this issue, which many of us have been ranting about for years. Perhaps this [...]
If you’ve got even the most passing interest in urban planning or cultural policy, then you ought to familiarize yourself with the work of Charles Landry. (Meanwhile, if you’ve got more than a passing interest, odds are you’re already familiar with Landry.) The father of the “Creative City” concept was interviewed recently in [...]
This piece originally appeared as an article in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on January 15, 2007.Last September an RFP came across my desk from Two Trees Management, a commercial real estate developer in New York. It offered a 6,000 square foot theatre in Brooklyn for free for 10 years if applicants committed to developing the [...]
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