In Richard Florida’s framework of the “creative class,” what is the best strategy to stimulate urban growth? How does Howell use Florida’s

In Richard Florida’s framework of the “creative class,” what is the best strategy to stimulate urban growth? How does Howell use Florida’s

Reading Questions: “The ‘Creative Class’ and the Gentrifying City: Skateboarding in Philadelphia’s Love Park” by Ocean Howell

  1. In Richard Florida’s framework of the “creative class,” what is the best strategy to stimulate urban
    growth? How does Howell use Florida’s argument in his own? How does this relate to class conflict
    and class displacement?
  2. How does Howell define and use the term “gentrification”? What reason does Howell give for his
    definition of the word?
  3. How does Borden see skateboarding as a way to reassert use values as opposed to exchange
    values? How does skateboarding perform a critique of modernist space? Provide your own
    example of one such “critique”?
  4. How were skateboarders the “shock troops of gentrification” in LOVE Park? What does this
    phrasing mean?
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