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The Creative Class Backlash

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: ArchNewsNow
2 November 2004 - 9:00am

An amused and exasperated Richard Florida explains that his theories are based on economic development principles.

"The one side accuses Florida, formerly an economic-development professor at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University and now on the faculty of George Mason University School of Public Policy, of having a "gay agenda" or an "arts agenda" and of undermining the Judeo-Christian foundations of our society. The other asserts that he has abandoned the working class in favor of promoting a group of elites."

Full Story: 'Creative Class' author sets record straight
Source: The Plain Dealer, October 30, 2004
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All of that only scratches the surface of what's wrong with this study. The idea that complex urban development patterns and human behavior can be meaningfully studied according to one primary criteria — density — is wrong from the start.
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