Creatives Archive

The creative industries, GDP and happiness: What does well-being have to do with the economy have to do

Creatives’ as change agents, FAQ: Since the vision of this site is ‘crowdsourcing places for creatives’, it

Keeping creatives inspired after their ‘peak: Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the literary phenomenon Eat, Pray, Love, provided some

Why right-brainers will rule this century: While they weren’t brand new cars, Oprah did leave 4500 copies of

The triumph of the creatives: What does the new U.S. administration have to do with creatives? A

CreateHere’ a model for growing a creative economy: If you’re looking for an effective precedent in how to jumpstart the

Ten paradoxical personality traits of the creative: While resources abound on who creatives are and the tremendous economic impact

A forum for creatives in DC: If you’re a creative in Washington DC, then CreativesDC is just for

Is establishing a creative community like herding cats?: It’s not easy, according to research findings in Richard Florida’s

Why the personality of your place matters: One of my favorite graphics in Richard Florida’s new book, Who’s Your

The growing economic impact of the creative class: Richard Florida’s Who’s Your City?, profiled in the previous entry and available

Richard Florida’s new book, Who’s Your City?: First there was the best-selling Rise of the Creative Class that introduced

Highest density of creative class members: The most straightforward measure of the creative class in any city is

The creatives: Rengen, Cultural Creatives, Creative Class: Who are the creatives? Many of you in the know have heard

Make way for the second Renaissance: It is happening in our cities now, and it rivals the Renaissance

The creative class, Richard Florida, cooltowns and Joe Namath: Some people have been wondering how the creative class relates to cooltowns

The kind of developer every cool city needs…: …and that’s an Eve Picker. Trained as an architect/urban designer, Eve is

How the creative class relates to the economy: With all the press and writings on the creative class, what sometimes

China, Great Britan making creative class waves: When looking for creative class benchmarks in culture, placemaking and policy, it’s

Cool town creative businesses coping with gentrification: The question for creative businesses is not if a cool place becomes

Bohemians, artists, gays’ raise home values: You’ve all heard the qualitative stories about how artists and creatives move

So how would you describe the ‘cool town’ community?: We’ve gone through a series of very practical, tangible descriptions, profiles and

A blog on the creative class, a source for place-making: People often ask me what I read on a daily basis as

Paris aims to become 24/7, attract the creative class: Did you know Paris, unlike New York, London and Tokyo, is not

A look at NYC’s creative class strategy: Being that New York City is the pinnacle of urban living in

The creative class isn’t just artists!: Because of the name, creative class, many perceive it to consist of

A next gen vision for Maine region: Continuing our look at yesterday’s entry on Maine’s Midcoast Magnet group of

Maine’s creative class establishes a group for action: The creative class population of Maine’s northern MidCoast region longed for more

How a ‘living room for the creative community’ came to be: Just as Richard Florida’s research shows jobs follow talent, C3 (Creative Change
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