Editor’s Letter: Rise of the creative class?

As we were putting together this annual issue on the arts, I stumbled on the term “creative class” in a newsletter called CityLab. It was in an article talking about research showing that when the “creative class” moves into rural areas, innovation blooms and the local economies subsequently boom.
Richard Florida, an economist at the University of Toronto, coined this umbrella term to describe the types of people who invent and create things, be it anything from social me