Here’s a new book you should read:
The class of the new
“Netizens, elancers, cognitarians, swarm-capitalists, hackers,
produsumers, knowledge workers, pro-ams… these are just a few of the monikers that have been applied to the new social class emerging from the networked workplace.
In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different […]

The creative class has reached the top-level of car builder BMW. The company admits to feel heavily inspired by Florida’s theory of an economic class of people whose economic function is to create new ideas, new technology, and new creative content.
‘Ideas are everything’. That is the major theme in a series of new commercials launched […]

Whatever you may think about a ‘creative workforce’, the concept of the creative class is here to stay. A first study on the creative class in Canada further helps to turn the creative class into a distinct market segment.
TORONTO, CNW - Culture Creatives and Company, www.ccandco.com, released research on the values and beliefs amongst Canadians […]

To find and argue that places with the highest economic growth rates are places with relatively large gay communities is one thing (meet Richard Florida). It is quite another thing to seek out neighbourhoods with a relatively high influx of gay couples because property values are likely to rise in those areas.
However, in Tampa, USA, […]

Most of today’s debates about the so-called creative class tend to focus on downtown areas or center cities. (For instance read this critical account.) This morning I came across this column by Patrick Holmes about the creative class in the Rocky Mountains area. It is a commentary based on a kind of state of the […]

In cultural and urban studies a lot has been written about Richard Florida’s creative capital theory. Now it appears that Florida’s thesis has also found its way to medical science. In a recent paper published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR) Dr. Behrendt argues that doctors of chiropractic neatly fit into the […]