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Can urban entrepreneurs save our cities?

April 1, 2013/in
By:

Carl J. Schramm

In:

Huffington Post

A respected urbanologist, Joel Kotkin, has accused the idea’s author, Richard Florida, of selling snake oil. Florida says a city’s future depends on building something like an “arts district” where a young and rootless post-graduate crowd can hang out and be innovative. Somehow new businesses will flow because smart people have been attracted to town.

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