@article{e2e80d8b187d48ad8da08e2002f167a3,
title = "Neighborhood Diversity and the Rise of Artist Hotspots: Exploring the Creative Class Thesis Through a Neighborhood Change Lens",
abstract = "The diversity of the U.S. urban population has increased dramatically in recent decades, yet the processes through which population diversity may be driving neighborhood change remain insufficiently understood. Building on Claude Fischer's subcultural theory of urbanism and other classic sociological insights, this article makes the case that population diversity shapes the character of place and drives the spatial clustering of artists and art organizations. Contributing to recent debates on Richard Florida's “creative class” thesis, the paper proposes a reorientation of the conceptual and analytical focus from the predominant metropolitan area level to the neighborhood level. Analyses map and examine population and organizational data from over 850 neighborhoods in Chicago over two decades and spatially model neighborhood change. The results indicate that neighborhood diversity predicts over time an intensification of the creative scene, as reflected in rising hotspots of artists and nonprofit art organizations.",
author = "Corina Graif",
note = "Funding Information: I would like to thank Robert Sampson, Mary Waters, Christopher Winship, Peter Mars-den, William Julius Wilson, Van Tran, Allison Denton Jones, Ann Owens, John Iceland, and Niki Dickerson von Lockette for feedback and support on this project. An early version of this article received an honorable mention from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. I am grateful to Marlese Durr, Shelley Kimelberg, and Ryan Centner for their valuable comments. For funding, thank you to the National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1544455), the National Institute of Health (NIH Funding Information: I would like to thank Robert Sampson, Mary Waters, Christopher Winship, Peter Marsden, William Julius Wilson, Van Tran, Allison Denton Jones, Ann Owens, John Iceland, and Niki Dickerson von Lockette for feedback and support on this project. An early version of this article received an honorable mention from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. I am grateful to Marlese Durr, Shelley Kimelberg, and Ryan Centner for their valuable comments. For funding, thank you to the National Science Foundation (NSF CNS-1544455), the National Institute of Health (NIH K01-HD093863), the Penn State's Social Science Research Institute, and Population Research Institute (NICHD P2CHD041025). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Sociological Association",
year = "2018",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1111/cico.12317",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "754--787",
journal = "City and Community",
issn = "1535-6841",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Ltd",
number = "3",
}