Creative Cities

September 23, 2003 by Andrew Taylor

I’m off today at the ArtGrowth Summit, a Madison, Wisconsin, initiative to explore the place of the arts in creative cities. It’s one of countless such initiatives inspired by Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class.

The mother ship of such conferences will be in Toronto in October, the Creative Spaces + Places conference.

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