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Why do so many people seem blind to the DC that exists beyond the National Mall?
In particular, why is the creative life of the city so far below the mainstream radar?
What should DC be doing to support its creative constituents?
And just how big is the our creative community, anyway?
These are just some of the questions we tackled at the DC…
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Ugh. Fast Company magazine lists 12 podcasts for “the creative class” – that odd economic construction that groups artists, “knowledge workers” and intellectuals, according to FC. Loyal readers will remember that I’ve taken issue with the concept of the “creative class” before. As I said then, I’m no economist, but I take issue with co-opting the term “creative,” as though doctors and construction workers and whoever else doesn’t …
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Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, recently drove around the DC area with a Washington Post reporter, commenting on which neighborhoods exhibited signs of creative life, and the nature of DC’s “creative class.”According to the reporter, Annys Shin, Florida’s work “argues that cities that attract …
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