<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper pinpoints the problematic use of grouping creative people as a social class. Observations of the ‘creative clusters’ in Lower East Side (New York) and Islington Mill (Manchester) are used to illustrate this point. Instead, creative actors should be seen as a unique blend of work practices, and have different philosophical and aesthetic appreciation of art, which in turn influences their spatial and geographical consumption patterns inside a building and/or city. This observation questions the use of ‘class’ in Richard Florida’s (2002) <italic>The rise of the Creative Class</italic>, and consequently asks if place-making practitioners should adopt one-size-fits-all creative policies</p></abstract>

This paper pinpoints the problematic use of grouping creative people as a social class. Observations of the ‘creative clusters’ in Lower East Side (New York) and Islington Mill (Manchester) are used to illustrate this point. Instead, creative actors should be seen as a unique blend of work practices, and have different philosophical and aesthetic appreciation of art, which in turn influences their spatial and geographical consumption patterns inside a building and/or city. This observation questions the use of ‘class’ in Richard Florida’s (2002) The rise of the Creative Class, and consequently asks if place-making practitioners should adopt one-size-fits-all creative policies

Why Put ‘Class’ in the Creative Class?

Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, United Kingdom

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This paper pinpoints the problematic use of grouping creative people as a social class. Observations of the ‘creative clusters’ in Lower East Side (New York)...

Why Put ‘Class’ in the Creative Class?

Published Online: Jan 16, 2013

Page range: 9 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-012-0031-7

Keywords
class, creatives, practice, cognition, consumption

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Why Put ‘Class’ in the Creative Class?

Published Online: Jan 16, 2013

Page range: 9 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10117-012-0031-7

Keywordsclass, creatives, practice, cognition, consumption

This content is open access.

Keywords
class, creatives, practice, cognition, consumption