Creative Businesses - Jesse Keyes

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The Nightlife Economy as Nexus to Regional
Development New York City a Case Study

• Paper Proposal
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• Jesse Keyes
• Princeton University

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The Stereo View of Economic Activity Employed

• Establishments- Economic activity and the level
  of the industry and unique businesses within
  nightlife
• Occupation Approach- Human capital as embedded
  and differentiated in nightlife employee segments
  (1)

• Search for richer picture via both deductive and
  inductive reasoning at the level of the
  establishment and the employee.

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Planning Officials and Nightlife Industry
Have a Contentious and Colorful History

• Key points of community versus industry
  interests
• -alcohol
• -noise
• -dancing
• -crime
• -health
• Government agencies developed to handle the
  conflict
• -New York State Liquor Authority
• -New York City Department of Environmental
  Protection
• -New York City Department of Consumer Affairs
• -New York City Police Department
• -New York City Department of Health

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Rich, Colorful and Dark Element to the
Development of New York Citys Cultural Fabric
Vaudeville- subversive shows with connections to
immigrant homelands then popular
culture Prohibition- does more to create a boom
of the speakeasys, drinking and music then any
other policy Supper Club- become points of
transaction and every imaginable sort of
business Nightclub- hedonistic venues of music
and drugs that yet undergird cultural production

• 14th Street Theater
• Palace Theater
• Chumleys
• 21 Club
• Stork Club
• The Latin Quarter
• CBGG

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Absence of National or Local Policies that
Support the Arts

• Nightlife industry as seed capital to the arts,
  as well as place to cultivate legitimacy?

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While a Continued Departure of Headquarters and
Manufacturing, Financial Services Stays and Grows
in New York city

• Financial services and key source capital for
  nightlife industry?
• Have increased prices of nightlife products (food
  and alcohol)
• Benefit employeesc ommensurately?
• Bohemians invest heavily in cultivating and
  nurturing their own creativity. (1)

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The Nightlife Economy as Nexus to Regional
Development New York City a Case Study
Place Place is the key economic and social
organizing unit of our time. It is place that
solves the chicken-and-egg problem, matching
people and jobs jobs and peoplePlaces provide
the ecosystems that harness human creativity and
turn it into economic value. (Florida, xix)

• Network
• Artistic networks, often enhanced by new
  spaces for working and gathering, are helping to
  spread entrepreneurial ideas and practices both
  within and outside regions. (Markusen and King,
  3)

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