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The Flight of the Creative Class

Jon Linton

Richard Florida, HarperCollins, New York, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-06-075691-8 (pbk)

Richard Florida is the hippest urban sociologist around – not only does he have a great idea that he has parlayed into two quite good books (the one being reviewed here and its predecessor, The Rise of the Creative Class), but he has also been on The Colbert Report and more than held his own against that notoriously irreverent interviewer. Very cool. He’s also Hollywood handsome, relatively young, and, as a result of the best-seller status of his previous book, pretty well off. So, there is ample reason to hate him. But, the real question is: is all the hype justified, and is there anything to it?

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Urban and emergent art forms tend to be excluded from the “high arts” and traditional cultural heritage of symphony orchestras, museums, theatres, and ballet. Like much of today’s youth culture, urban arts are flourishing mostly under the mainstream radar. – Ariana Moscote Freire, Head of Research, Novita

Read this article in the February 2009 Heritage Issue of Municipal World.

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Feature Profile

Meet Denis Chamberland – in the Procurement Zone

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Denis Chamberland is regarded as one of Canada’s leading legal advisors in municipal procurement. He helps municipalities draft bid call documents and procurement by-laws and he provides strategic advice on a variety of legal, regulatory and public policy issues, such as municipal conflicts of interest, lobbying, and codes of conduct. He also works with municipalities on various projects, including public-private partnerships, water and wastewater, solid waste collection, disposal and recycling, construction, outsourcing, and information technology transactions.

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Feature Book

Cultural Planning for Creative Communities – [Item 0035]– Authored by Gord Hume, one of the leading pioneers of the Creative City movement in Canadian municipal government, this book offers practical ideas and plans on how Canadian municipalities can adapt the emerging “fourth pillar of sustainability” into their planning, budgeting, decision making, and community leadership.

Cultural Planning for Creative Communities offers a proven insider's look at forming local roundtables and community action groups for cultural planning. It details Cultural Mapping. It outlines the process local governments can take to implement Cultural Planning. From public art to economic development, from rejuvenating downtowns to practical ideas for saving heritage properties, from integrating “Creative City” concepts into your official plan to attracting the Creative Class, this book offers it all.

This book is a must-have for municipal council members, civic administration, arts and cultural organizations, heritage groups, business leaders, and community activists.

Each book ships with a bonus set of eight full-colour postcards, featuring photographs of public art from across Canada.

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