Transcript Creative Cities: Practicum - Martin Prosperity Institute

Creative Cities: Practicum
Dr. Kevin Stolarick
15-Jan-2013
Quiz
Make sure your name is on the page
1. Does urbanization always lead to
prosperity? If no, give an example.
2. According Glaeser globalization allows
cities in poor but resource rich
countries to do what for food?
3. What two things does Tripathi find
lead to benefits in India’s
agglomerations?
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For Today
• Course Content Overview
• Brief History of Urbanization in India
• Toronto & Technology I: Firms
• Next week:
– Urbanization Specific Cities
– MPI India States Report
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Course Stuff
• Toronto Readings/Examples
• “Required” Readings Assigned Days
• Teams
• Presentation
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Course Overview
Program Classifications
Technology I: Firms
2. Technology II: Innovation & Entrepreneurship
3. Technology? Talent? Universities! (and Colleges!)
4. Talent I: Specific Occupations, Skills
5. Talent II: General Workforce
6. Tolerance: Immigrants, Diversity
7. Civic Capital: NGOs, Non-Profits
8. Amenities I: Starbucks & Bike Paths
9. Amenities II: Infrastructure, Built Form
10. Amenities III: Scenes
1.
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Brief History of Urbanization in
India
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Key Periods
• Vedic (500 BCE) Hinduism
• Greek/Persian (500-200 BCE) Jainism, Buddhism
• Classical (200 BCE – 1100 CE) Hinduism
• Puranic/Sultanates (500 – 1500) Hinduism/Muslim
• Mughal (1526-1757) Muslim
• “The Company” (1500-1858) Muslim/Hindu
• The Raj (1858-1947)
• Independence (1947)
• “Open” Economy (1990s)
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Urbanization
• Very, very early
• 500 BCE “second urbanization”
• World Bank, global NGOs and
urbanization policy
– Through the 1980s, 90s
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Urbanization and Policy
• Indian “protectionism” and urbanization
• POLITICS
• Urbanization today
– Return of “the Company” (Jaypee, DLF, ….)
– Rise of the Integrated City
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Urbanization and the Creative Economy
• Bangalore (then Hyderabad, Chennai)
– Growth of Services
– Education, Language, Skills
• Models of economic maturity and
development
• Two “Middle” Classes
– Corporate
– Trader
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The Case of Toronto
Technology I: Firms
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Firm Attraction
• “Hot Sectors/Hot Markets”
• GTMA
• BOT (TRBOT)
• InvestToronto
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