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| Thought Leaders: Culture |
Economic Expressionism
Elizabeth Currid
10/01/2007
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The high cost of real estate, however, has forced many of them
to live far outside Manhattan. Today the city’s artistic communities such as
Brooklyn’s Williamsburg section or the Lower East Side are so rapidly
gentrifying that rising rents and retail intrusion curtail any possibility of
generating a lasting cultural scene. The same thing is happening in Los Angeles,
San Francisco and other hot metropolitan areas.
The art we admire is a product of artists who get most of their
ideas and groundbreaking career moments from being part of a face-to-face
community. And so support for the arts must start, quite literally, on the
street where artists live and work and make the art that produces a vibrant
metropolis and contributes to a strong urban economy.
Elizabeth Currid is an assistant professor at USC’s School of
Policy,
Planning and Development and author of the book The Warhol
Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music
Drive New York City.
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