Sustainability of Richard Florida’s Creative Class and the “saviour demographic” again

I just read a piece by Frank Bures that outlines all the reasons that Richard Florida is just plain wrong about his ideas of the profitability that comes with creating a "Creative Class" heaven of a city.  I'd posted a couple of blogs about Portland in relation to Florida's ideas in the past but neither …

Diversity and the Arts: The Portland Initiative

Joe Patti and Drew McManus post about Portland's new diversity goals and they (as well as commenters) bring up a ton of controversial issues regarding the implementation of such an initiative.  In my Portland is where young people go to retire post, I mentioned some problems with the idea of giving arts organizations superficial facelifts …