The “creative class” and the financial crisis
2012 study from the University of Toronto and other institutions on structural changes in the U.S. job market, as demonstrated during the Great Recession.
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The rise of residential segregation by income in the United States
2012 study from the Pew Research Center on how the American demographic landscape is seeing increasing numbers of areas segregated by income.
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Cities, skills and wages in the United States
2012 study by the University of Toronto on the relationship between the skills used in a job and the salary for that job in a city of a given size.
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Cultural attractions, human capital and economic growth
2010 paper by the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich on cultural sites and how they shape local economies.
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Relationships between streetcars and the built environment
2010 study from the Transit Cooperative Research Program on recent streetcar systems and their impact on development and land-use patterns.
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