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Toward a New Housing System - Creative Class » Blog Archive »

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The only way toward long-run and sustainable recovery is a dramatic change in where and how we live. What ultimately got us out of the Long Depression of the late 19th century and the Great Depression of the 1930s wasn’t just new technology, or creative destruction, or government spending, it was a phase-shift in the way we live - in our economic geography. The recovery after the Long Depression took shape around the rise of the industrial city and its streetcar suburbs. The recovery after the Great Depression was powered by suburbanization. We need a massive shift not just in our infrastructure but in our housing system.
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Tags: housing, mortgage_crisis, richard_florida, economy, spatial_fix on 2009-02-26 -All Annotations (1) -About

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The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash Will Reshape America | Richard Florida

Richard Florida on how the financial crash will affect specific geographical locales and cities in the US / in North America. On NYC, he notes that its diversified economy - even though it's home to Wall Street, which may well be moribund if not dead already - will see the city through the worst of it.

Tags: richard_florida, economy, economics, cities on 2009-02-24 and saved by 20 people -All Annotations (55) -About

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"Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"

Podcast of the panel/symposium hosted by University of Victoria on 11/18/08 re. "Financial 9-1-1: Implications of the Economic Crisis - The UVic President's Panel on the Economy"
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How might the current economic crisis affect your house, your job, your future? Gain insight and a fresh perspective on the global financial crisis from this panel discussion featuring business, economic, and financial experts from UVic and the community.

Speakers: Graham Voss, UVic, Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Basma Majerbi, UVic, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business
Tom Siemens, RBC, Vice President Commercial Banking
Robert Jawl, Jawl Properties, Principal
Tony Gage, Head, JEA Pension System Solutions
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Local perspective.

Tags: uvic, economy, financial_crisis, podcast, daily_splice, victoria on 2008-12-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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CIBC World Markets - Economics & Strategy - Metropolitan Economic Activity

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The CIBCWM Metropolitan Economic Activity Index

Using 9 key macroeconomic variables, we have developed a metropolitan index of economic activity, which is structured in a way that approximates the change in each city's level of economic activity. With data going back for almost 10 years, our index enables us not only to monitor the current performance of a given city but also to track its cyclical behavior against the national economy and other census metropolitan areas (CMAs). The focus is on the 25 largest CMAs in Canada.

The macro variables used to develop the index are: (1) Population growth, (2) Employment growth, (3) Unemployment rate, (4) Full-time share in total employment, (5) Personal bankruptcy rate, (6) Business bankruptcy rate, (7) Housing starts, (8) MLS Housing resales, and (9) Non-Residential building permits. We combined all the above information into one index per city: "The CIBCWM Metropolitan Economic Activity Index"1.
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The link to the synopsis (Metro Monitor - Canadian Cities: An Economic Snapshot 12/17/08) is on this page (PDF) :
http://research.cibcwm.com/economic_public/download/metro_monitor.pdf (6 pages)

Tags: cibc, canada, metros, census_metropolitan_areas, economy, world_markets, markets on 2008-12-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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"Why home values may take decades to recover," by Dennis Cauchon (USAToday.com)

Quite a horrifying article about the depth (and breadth) housing's role in the financial crisis, and why the market is in the doldrums in a bad bad way.
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Home values have fallen before — during the Great Depression and in Texas after a 1980s oil boom, for example — but those drops were a response to other economic forces. This time, the housing price collapse is the cause of the nation's broad economic troubles, not just an effect.
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Tags: usatoday, housing, subprime_mortgage_crisis, bailout, financial_crisis, economy on 2008-12-16 -All Annotations (9) -About

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The Gospel of Green | CBC News: the fifth estate

CBC portal page for a program on Germany's shift to a green(er) infrastructure/ economy, w/ focus on Hermann Scheer, parliamentarian who helped make it happen.
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Hermann Scheer is a German parliamentarian who has turned ideas into practical solutions. Because of the laws that bear his name, Germany is now a solar-paneled, windmill-building, job-producing green powerhouse of the industrialized world. Fifteen per cent of Germany's electricity now comes from renewable energy systems. Scheer predicts that, if his country continues on this course, that number could be 100 per cent by 2030.
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Tags: cbc, hermann_scheer, environment, economy, green_strategies, germany on 2008-11-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Creative Class » Blog Archive » The Nature of This Crisis Matters - Creative Class

A sobering assessment of current bail-out strategies and why they could well fail, by Martin Kenney.

Tags: creative_class, richard_florida, financial_crisis, economy, martin_kenney on 2008-10-19 -All Annotations (4) -About

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"I Purchase, Therefore I Am," by Richard Florida - Creative Class blog

Great entry by Richard Florida, which underscores the connection between suburbanization, reliance on cheap gasoline, consumption, and using housing/ real estate as a "piggy bank" that one could always raid to get money to buy more stuff. See entry, and annotations/ highlights.

I added a comment, in response to an existing comment by Wendy Waters, and then a second one in response to Kwende Kefentse.

Tags: creative_class, economy, financial_crisis, mortgage_crisis, richard_florida, suburbs on 2008-10-06 -All Annotations (13) -About

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Do tourists miss 'Toronto the Good'? - Posted Toronto

While some people say that "gritty" = "edgy" (and therefore "cool"), there's an undeniable line that gets crossed at some point, and then gritty isn't edgy anymore, it's just shabby & run-down & dirty. It seems that far too many North American cities are on their way to that. I'm reminded of my oldest sister's visit to Victoria a couple of years ago. She lives in the heart of Tokyo, and her observations of Victoria were that it's dirty. Not the air (compared to Tokyo), but in terms of the litter on the streets, the obvious signs of infrastructural decay, and the obvious signs of social decay (panhandlers, drug users). Maybe things have gone downhill in Tokyo since her remarks, but they have also certainly gone further downhill here.

This article in the National Post (by Barry Hertz) should be read in conjunction with some of the other commentaries appearing on infrastructure, whether on Richard Florida's blog, or on the CEOs for Cities blog, or even on Doc Searls's blog (see Handbasket weaving, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/05/13/handbasket-weaving/). The basic message is that this is not a question of "style" or edginess or cool or whatever, but a question of underfunded infrastructure, which is crumbling around our ears. And this has long term deleterious economic impacts.

Tags: toronto, infrastructure, infrastructure_funding, economy, competitiveness on 2008-05-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Logic+Emotion: Thinking Through The "3 U's"...

The 3 Us -- damn that apostrophe, it's all wrong as used in the article's title. But if you leave it out, it reads as "the 3 us," as in *us* or *them*... Regardless, an interesting summing up of what might make applications interesting for users. See notes.

Tags: apps, economy, marketing, socialnetworks, web2.0 on 2008-02-26 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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An Update to TD Economics' 2002 Report on the GTA Economy (application/pdf Object)

- 33-pg PDF update by Toronto Dominion Bank on GTA (Greater Toronto Area)

Tags: canada, cities, economic_development, economy, td_bank, toronto on 2007-12-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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