Durham blogger and President Emeritus of the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau shares his thoughts on the area North of Corporation Street...
Durham’s NoCO District – Emblematic of Revitalization through “Small Room Gardening”
Bull City Mutterings
Reyn Bowman
It is getting better but many economic developers, including those with my background in visitor-centric economic and cultural development, seem more than a little “macho-man,” maybe even chauvinistic. And I hope it doesn’t take one to know one!
So a decade ago when Richard Florida first began to publish his data analysis on the bellwether “creative class,” (formerly known as knowledge workers or people who “think” for a living) it wasn’t surprising when many economic developers, addicted to “big game hunting,” either blew his work off as a fad or more often perverted the nomenclature to justify anything they happened to be doing.
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