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Article: "It's the people ... stupid".(Cities and the Creative Class)(review)(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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A Review of Richard Florida's Cities and the Creative Class (New York: Routledge, 2005)
Richard Florida's Cities and the Creative Class allows us to revisit themes introduced by the author's 2002 work The Rise of the Creative Class and How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life with greater empirical precision and the benefit of added reflection and introspection. Cities and the Creative Class is a further elaboration of research that led to Florida's theoretical concept of creative class and its relationship to geography and economic growth. The book serves as a tool for local government decision making and for human resources, urban, and ...