This boom includes Richard Florida's people: the young, digitized, multilingual
creative class workers who populate the condos sprouting on Lake Ontario's edge, drawn from other parts of the city and the rest of the province and country to where economic and educational opportunity beckons.3
Not exact matches
So Pearce and her colleagues teamed up with the
Workers» Educational Association to follow more than 100 participants in weekly, 2 - hour singing, art, and
creative writing
classes at community centers in the United Kingdom.
-- Gay Men Lesbians Bisexuals Transgender Adolescents Transgender Men Transgender Women Genderqueer / Non-Binary Adults Gender Non - Conforming / Gender
Creative Children / Adolescents Parents of GLBTQ Children Men Women Older Adults Adolescents Infants / Pre-schoolers Elementary / School - Aged Children Middle School / Pre-teens Young Adults Middle Aged Adults Parents Childfree Adults Immigrants Refugees African - American / Black Latino / Latina / Latinx / Hispanic Southeast Asian Asian / Pacific Islander Arab / Middle Eastern Mixed Race Adoptees Foster Children Foster Parents Christian Muslim Jewish Buddhist Hindu Atheist / Agnostic Spiritual New Age Indigenous / Traditional Religion Military First Responders (Police, Paramedic, Fire Fighter, etc.) Disabled / People with Disabilities Mixed - Orientation Couples Mixed Religion Couples Mixed Race / Cross-Cultural Couples Homeless Adults Homeless Children / Families Working
Class / Blue Collar / Tradespeople White Collar
Workers Therapists / Counselors
To do that, economic developers advise, they need to attract the young knowledge
workers and the
creative class, key to today's economy, as well as the updated housing, walkable neighborhoods, urban amenities and transportation options, which they are looking for.
As author of the 2002 best - seller «The Rise of the
Creative Class,» he defined this growing legion of 35 million
workers and has followed his first book with several related titles, including his latest, «The Great Reset.»
Beyond this core group, the
creative class also includes professionals, technicians, and other
workers who engage in
creative problem solving in knowledge - intensive industries.