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Why Put ‘Class’ in the Creative Class?

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  • Mo Aaron

    (Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, United Kingdom)

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This paper pinpoints the problematic use of grouping creative people as a social class. Observations of the ‘creative clusters’ in Lower East Side (New York) and Islington Mill (Manchester) are used to illustrate this point. Instead, creative actors should be seen as a unique blend of work practices, and have different philosophical and aesthetic appreciation of art, which in turn influences their spatial and geographical consumption patterns inside a building and/or city. This observation questions the use of ‘class’ in Richard Florida’s (2002) The rise of the Creative Class, and consequently asks if place-making practitioners should adopt one-size-fits-all creative policies

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  • Mo Aaron, 2012. "Why Put ‘Class’ in the Creative Class?," Quaestiones Geographicae, Sciendo, vol. 31(4), pages 9-17, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:quageo:v:31:y:2012:i:4:p:9-17:n:2
    DOI: 10.2478/v10117-012-0031-7
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