The prospect of an emerging cohort of highly skilled, creative professionals, the so-called creative class (Florida, 2002, 2004, 2008) has been exciting researchers and policy makers throughout much of the last decade. The main precept of which are the place sensibilities of some urban areas and the lifestyle choices of creative professionals, which in some locations are said to coincide.

Richard Florida‘s assertion that creative human capital _’is the ultimate sources of economic growth’_ has received much notoriety, as much for the spectacular and optimistic nature of his assertions for towns and cities, as for the speed at which his work has been embraced by policy makers and researchers throughout the Western World.

In this session, we invite papers on any topics related to Richard Florida’s work and creative cities, particularly those which look forward to the next decade of policy development. Papers are particularly welcomed in the following areas:

• Evaluation of creative regeneration approaches
• Transformation of Industrial Cities to Creative Cities, and the Post-Industrial form
• Future strategies for creative cities
• Empirical approaches to defining and measuring the ‘Creative Class’
• The geography of creative cities – between cities, within cities, geography of scale
• Impact of transformation – physical, economic, social
• Sustainability of the ‘Creative Class’ and Creative Cities model

We invite papers and interest in any of these aspects.

Deadline for expressions of interest and paper abstracts, Friday 24 September.

Dr Rachel Granger
Coventry University

Institute for Creative Enterprise| Coventry Technology Park | Parkside | Coventry CV1 2QR
E: r.granger@coventry.ac.uk<mailto:r.granger@coventry.ac.uk>