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Canadian Metropolis 2
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Last Time
• Issues of the power and function of Canadian cities
• The idea of landscapes within the city connecting to the broader space-economy of the city, changing as it changes
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This Time
• The role of the city as a centre of creativity and innovation• Economic creativity• Cultural creativity
• Important to its economy, culture and landscapes
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Reading
• Hracs et al (2011) on musical talent in Toronto and Halifax
• Richard Florida et al (2010) on the creative urban economy
• Cummins-Russell & Rantisi (2012) on Montreal’s music industry
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Urban Creativity
• Cities generate innovation, generate change• The most advanced parts of the economy tend to be
found somewhere urban• Cities trigger change in their urban fields, their rural
hinterlands
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Urban Innovation/Creativity
• Example of car-sharing and cycling
• These two emerging forms of transportation emerge first in cities• Especially in inner-city Toronto
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Car2Go Toronto Car-sharing:
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Cycling
• Toronto’s inner city has adopted cycling as a major form of transportation• Bloor bike lanes
• Suburbs much slower to adopt/adapt
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Cycling in Whitby
• Emphasis is on recreational cycling along the waterfront etc.,
• Motor vehicles can cross highway 401 safely via bridges
• When cyclists ask for cycle lanes on those 401 bridges they get laughed at
• GO train use limited by the size of the GO station parking lot• But town making it difficult to cycle to the GO train
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Cycling in Toronto
• Toronto cyclists make 3 million trips/week in summer months
• Approx 20% of population (390,000) are ‘utilitarian’ cyclists [non-recreational]
• Rates higher in city core
• 30% of Montrealers commute by bike now (540,000)
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• Bike Share:• 3,750 bikes and 360 stations
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Gentrification in Toronto
• Another example of urban creativity
• Toronto one of the first N. American cities to develop residential gentrification
• Early phases based on the culture and social networks of bohemian creatives
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Bloor-Yorkville
• A residential area abandoned by the wealthy circa 1910 • They head to the suburbs
• Becomes a fashionable shopping area for wealthy suburbanites from 1910s• Retail gentrification
• Retail gentrification and TTC subway anchors a transformation into residential gentrification in late 1950s/early 1960s• Led by bohemian creatives
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Concerto Café, 89 Bloor St W
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Concerto Café, 89 Bloor St W
• Opens June 1955
• One of the first 5 coffee houses in Toronto to have an espresso machine
• A hit with Yorkville crowd
• Helped launch Toronto’s coffee house culture
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George Herczeg
• Jewish, Hungarian, holocaust survivor
• Realtor c1960, notices a demand for inner city housing from creatives
• Begins to buy & renovate inner city homes
• Starts with 82 MacPherson Ave, 1961
• Herczeg renovates and sells 200+ inner city properties by 1970• Financed by vendor take-back mortgages
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The Colonnade
• Completed 1963
• 161 Bloor St W., E of Avenue Rd, W of Bay St
• Billed as the first Mixed-Use high-rise development in Canada (it wasn’t: 11 Yorkville Ave, 1958)
• 2 floors of commercial, 12-floor office building, 11 floors of high-end rentals
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Urban Creativity
• These examples help establish that cities (and Toronto) are centres of innovation
• Toronto-Kitchener tech corridor with its 13000+ tech startups last year
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Urban Creativity
• A key figure in this debate is Richard Florida• US urbanist and consultant, now based in Toronto
• Argued that the creative side to the city is vital to its economic and cultural survival, prosperity
• How to measure, stimulate urban creativity?
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Richard Florida
• Argues that creativity is a key attribute of the urban economy
• Suggested that the more bohemian and cosmopolitan cities are more creative• More open to innovation• Attempted to gauge urban creativity by looking at a city’s
gay bars
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Richard Florida
• Most big North American cities have comparable infrastructure• Acceptable communications networks• Adequate education systems and facilities• Adequate shipping and transportation
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Richard Florida
• But to land and keep footloose high-tech industries you need something extra• An attractive lifestyle• An interesting urban nightlife• Fulfilling ways to live
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Richard Florida
• This suggests that to build economic creativity you need• To build and maintain the ordinary infrastructure which
other cities will have too• To foster a good quality of life, night-life, lifestyle
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Toronto’s Entertainment District
• Emerges in the late 1990s in land banked for condo development
• Gives Toronto a big bar and club scene
• Now reduced, as redevelopment absorbs the sites
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Premier Mike Harris
• In the 1990s argued that Ontario needed to build the Internet• Argued that universities should be turning out engineers,
computer geeks• Not geographers, philosophers, musicians, etc.,
• Saw no value in creative culture, just engineering
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Richard Florida
• Argues that “creative workers” are becoming key figures in the present-day urban economy, a ‘creative class’• Knowledge-workers• Artists, musicians, artisans, cartoonists• Social scientists, planners, architects
• Suggests we keep these people happy, entertained, productive
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The Creative Class
• Toronto’s public intellectuals who now mainly live downtown were keen on the idea of the creative class• They belong to it
• Early versions of the thesis saw little creative about Jane & Finch, or Scarborough
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The Creative Class
• Christopher Hume in the Toronto Star derides Scarborough as a wasteland• Offers nothing creative in his opinion• A place were old strip plazas go to die
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The Creative Class
• But Scarborough’s strip plazas accommodate• Afghan grocers• Indian clothing stores• Pakistani restaurants
• Vibrant ethnic creativity• But Christopher Hume and Richard Florida can’t see it
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Jane & Finch
• Has plenty who know how to fill a dance hall with music for youth• Another kind of creativity
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The Creative Class
• In its original form Richard Florida seemed to mean• “Inner-city upper income people who think their jobs are
cool”
• Not surprising that Christopher Hume and the city’s public intellectuals often liked Florida’s ideas
• But ‘creative class’ is problematic class-situated language
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But more Generally
• Florida is probably right to draw our attention to the creative side of the urban economy• Even if he gets some of it wrong
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Toronto
• The Creative Economy is vital to Toronto:• A world-class role in mining finance and expertise.• Important knowledge-based financial, bio-tech, medical,
and aerospace industries• Big computer animation and mobile-app industries• Inner-city creative economy active since the 1950s
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Toronto
• Has become a major centre for cultural creativity and entertainment• The capital of Canada’s Anglophone print and electronic
media• Huge musical and arts scene with fertile connections to
multiculture, major festivals• Huge new media scene, games design, mobile App design• Global leader in AI research
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Price of Success
• Expensive real estate prices artists, musicians out of the market• Studio, rehearsal space expensive, difficult to find
• Some evidence of artists, musicians being displaced to Hamilton and elsewhere• Will Halifax, St John’s, Thunder Bay benefit?
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Price of Success
• Expensive real estate raising costs of high-tech and creative labour• Some of the high-tech relocating to secondary cities:
Kitchener-Waterloo-Guelph-Cambridge
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Price of Success
• A tendency for many in Ontario, Toronto to see arts and culture as a frill• Nice to have, but not vital
• Quebec better at funding culture and the arts• Gives Montreal an advantage over Toronto
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Creative Economy Strategies
• There are various ways of putting cultural creativity to work
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Thunder Bay ON
• Needs to attract and retain highly-qualified talent despite being a small and somewhat remote city
• Maintains a symphony orchestra, despite its small population size• Using culture to retain/attract the creative talent
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Winnipeg MB
• Trying to revitalise its inner city, and reconfigure its urban economy
• Building a new-media and knowledge economy on its centrality as a communications hub• Return of the Winnipeg Jets• New museum of Human Rights a showcase of the inner
city
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Toronto
• Decline in manufacturing created derelict zones along railway corridors
• 1990s Mayor Barbara Hall allowed redevelopment and re-use of these zones
• Rail corridors included two major telephone hubs vital for Internet data centres:• “The Two Kings”: King & Parliament, King & Strachan
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Toronto
• Toronto’s inner city industrial land, grouped around the Two Kings became the basis for a condo-loft-conversion dot-com-new media landscape• Distillery District• Liberty Village
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• Liberty Village, 2000
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2008
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Liberty Village Today
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Creative Toronto
• Did not invent Nuit Blanche, but probably now defines this festival in Canada
• Toronto produces mobile gaming apps
• Toronto is important for EDM• The Entertainment District was the ‘Yorkville’ for EDM
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Critique
• The city as innovator is a well-established concept
• Creativity is part of its economy, culture• And the two support each other
• But how powerful is it?
• Bankers and the politicians still control the real power of the urban economy• Not the musicians and cartoonists