Read more about our 6% Place experiment or see the Tracking Tools established in this book.
about the book
Blighted neighborhoods struggle to reinvent themselves, often with expensive physical investment. New or renovated buildings too often sit vacant and unoccupied until a pioneering population is willing to move in. The 6% Place experiment has taken a divergent path. Instead of just focusing on physical infrastructure, it looks carefully at how people, not just buildings, can drive change.
Studies have shown that creative workers and industries cluster together in the center of metropolitan areas. These studies have also shown that a worker population consisting of just 6% of creative workers can tip the balance towards a neighborhood that is thriving. cityLAB is experimenting with this one simple assumption in its 6% Place experiment. Their goal is to systematically populate a neighborhood with creative workers to reach that 6% goal.
cityLAB chose an overlooked and underpopulated neighborhood in Pittsburgh called Garfield as its first 6% Place. Read how cityLAB defines the problem and the solution with a set of sixteen incentives all designed to drive creative workers to live in the 6% Place.
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You can buy a printed copy from Lulu.com for $34.
or the e-book
The book is also available for Kindle, as an iBook for the iPad, and as an ePub for other e-readers. All three e-books cost $3.99.
download the book
The 6% Place book is available for download as a PDF in three sizes: small, medium, and large.
Click here for the the Condensed Version of the book, which is twenty-two pages long.
Click here for the Expanded Version of the book, which is ninety-nine pages long.
Click here to download the entire book (Condensed + Expanded versions).