Top Ten Creative Cities: Measuring Economic Potential

Comprising doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and computer programmers — almost everyone, in short, who is paid to think for a living — the creative class now accounts for nearly 30 percent of the workforce... there is growing recognition that when it comes to economic growth, 'the relatively well educated and relatively creative are disproportionately important'...the creative class may mean boom times for one city and obsolescence for another..."