Name: 為什麼科技公司會湧向昂貴的城市？ (Why Tech Firms Flock to Expensive Cities | WSJ)
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for over 1.5 million square feet of space

Amazon also has an office down the street.

And if you go further down the Hudson River,

- There's a reason that most of the major

big tech brand platforms are based in a few places.

and they wanna be near some of the same resources.

- Agglomeration is the tendency of economic activity

to gather, or cluster, or clump together.

It happens because there are often benefits

- [Narrator] That clustering can build up an economy,

- Even the winners don't feel like winners.

If you're in traffic choked, expensive San Francisco

you don't feel like the current clustering

and neither does anybody else in the United States

- [Narrator] To understand how an agglomeration gets going,

is more educated than the national average.

which makes New York attractive for expansion.

- Obviously, we've seen these clusters develop,

- [Narrator] Capacity for growth on the far West Side

grew in the 2000s during Michael Bloomberg's

- We did 140 separate rezonings of the city.

Often of old, under utilized, industrial land

- [Narrator] The city also extended the subway

was there was no great way to get over here.

$3 billion was invested in the extension of the subway

into the area as well as other infrastructure.

and millions of dollars for a new Cornell Tech campus.

Often times, the research really shows is that

universities catalyze that kind of collaboration

better than almost any other institution.

forming a cluster of highly skilled workers.

- A big agglomeration of say high-tech economic activity

because think of what it has close proximity,

highly specialized providers of business services.

- [Narrator] Research from Mr. Muro and others

suggest that workers who live in these clusters

tend to be more productive than those who don't.

Workers in industries like manufacturing or retail

if you're a worker in an innovation industry.

that some of the cities who've generated clusters

are pulling away from the rest of the country.

- You only have to look at the complaints

of people who live in Seattle or the Bay Area

to see that very serious negative implications

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