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It’s been ten years since Richard Florida published The Rise of the Creative Class. The book was both lauded and criticized for defining a people-based approach to city building and for trendifying elitist attitudes. In the excerpt from his latest book, The Creative Class Revisited, posted on The Atlantic Cities, Florida acknowledges the diversity of opinions on his work and tries to reconcile his approach with the economic meltdown, post-9/11 politics, and the collapse of the tech bubble.
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Blazer with jeans = not to be taken seriously.
Florida is all marketing. The creatie class is more the the created class. Created by measures that protect them from global wage competition. A better name would be the Protected Class.
Whenever I need a good laugh I think of Florida’s Tor-Buff-Roch (or Roch-Buff-Tor) theory and wonder how that is doing. Still cant figure out what people saw in this guy. Maybe it was because he appealed to their egos as they all wanted to be “Creative Class”. Seems kind of goofy now.