The Rise Of The Creative Class

The speaker loves the good and the bad of Chicago. Its laughter comes from a place of deep joy and life. The speaker says that Chicago is proud to be what it is, and reminds us of its youthful, joyful energy. It’s a vibrant and dynamic city, and the speaker finds beauty in it, despite its dark corners. The speaker in “My City” loves Manhattan’s bright world of trees, flowers, and singing birds.

Anna Quindlen, a Barnard College educated Pulitzer Prize winner and writer of “Doing Nothing is Something” took a gander at a long standing query: does free time result in creativity? In her article, Quindlen argues that children shouldn’t be overscheduled or overburdened and should be left to do, well, nothing. She proposes that creativity stems from the ability to be left alone with thoughts. She also mentions that competition encouraged at a young age is a cutthroat technique to facilitate “success” and mocks the effort. Although these are valid thoughts, they fall short of insightful as she seems to only acknowledge one perspective within the shrinking middle class. However, having nothing to do can lead disadvantaged youth

The beauty of creativity is that it is abstract, yet ubiquitous: in art, music or how one decides to compose an essay. However, creativity has recently been declining among the human population. According to an article, named, “The Creativity Crisis,” by Newsweek.com in July 2010, authors, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, state, “the Torrance Test … indicates that the public’s “creativity quotient” has steadily crept downward since 1990” (Prompt 1). Bronson and Merryman report that the test, which evaluates one’s creativity, had been dispensed to myriads of people across the globe, and have concluded that creativity has been slowly diminishing. Kyung Hee Kim, professor at the College of William and Mary, also comments that this is most prevalent and grave among students from kindergarten through sixth grade (Prompt 1). Consequently, society, or in this case, the world fears that current students and future generations will not be nourished with the creativity required to thrive as individuals, affecting the world as a whole. Ultimately, this poses the question whether a creative thinking class, which solely focuses on the education of creativity, should be taught in the school. This school should impose a creative thinking class, due to the fact creativity is a vital element for the future and is the solution to the creative crisis.

It was March 21st, 1765 and everything in the colony of South Carolina was as usual. I was walking back from the main store in the middle of town, I had gone to the store for some flour. I got home and helped my mother with dinner. The Seven Years War had ended a few years ago and the colonies are still recovering. The British Crown has put the sugar and currency acts on us but there are no real disruptions here.

Weinstein et. al research A Decline in Creativity? she studies a series of young adults creative productions over 20 years. the research question: How have the style, content and form of adolescents’ art-making and creative writing changed over the last 20 years? they look at the creative production pre-internet and post internet within that 20 years.The data was gathered from publication showcasing teen talent starting in 1989. The Visual artwork was randomly selected as was the creative writing from publications. in this vast study they found that the complexity of work was became harder over the years, that with time young adults started to challenge norms in art and creativity and pushed the

DISCUSSION: Presently, Liberty Village is undergoing a transformation in order to implement a ‘creative class’ employment center amidst a historical industrial buildings’ theme; hence, adorning a distinct character (Catungal et al., 2009). The area has been a site for one of the oldest European settlements in Toronto (Wieditz, 2007). Businesses in Liberty Village can utilize the advantage of being located close to downtown while simultaneously possessing the advantage of being in a ‘community,’ which differs from a standard office tower within the downtown core (Catungal et al., 2009). Although Liberty Village is in close proximity to downtown, it is a disparate entity and, in fact, separate; elements that enhance

As massive as Chicago is, opportunity is frequent. But as massive as Chicago is, nothing can be perfect. Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” helps one reading the poem understand what living in a big city like Chicago is like, equally exciting as frightening. “Chicago” is a poem that captures what the legendary city stands for, a polarizing residence that embodies what makes society both incredible and disappointing. Take the line “They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.”

By comparison, Liberty Villages’ securitization isn’t to limit istances of violence like the Entertainment District but instead like the Entertainment District limit the hosting of populations and business that the Liberty Village BIA deems as a deviation from their fostering of creative industries (Cantugal 2009; Lin 2016; Peyroux & Glascze 2012). For example, one of the last manufacturing businesses in Liberty Village, Canada Bread, left in 2013; previous to its closure, residents expressed irritation due to the factories noise and shipments (Cantugal et al 2009; Flavelle 2010). While Canada Bread’s closure has little effect on creative class residents, this will result in the loss of 435 jobs which predominantly employed workers from Parkdale

Richard Florida’s commentary The Creative Class and Economic Development focuses on the rise of what he refers to as the “creative class.” The rise of the creative class has been a result of the transition of the global economy away from Fordism to an information-based system. As a result, the most lucrative jobs are “jobs in knowledge-intensive industries that involve the production of new ideas or products, or that engage in creative problem solving.”

“The Geography of Genius”, by Eric Weiner is a book that dives deep into how geography influenced creative geniuses. Weiner travels from Athens to Silicon Valley, and throughout history, to show how creative geniuses flourished in specific places at specific times. He explores the history of Renaissance Florence, Ancient Athens, Hangzhou, and Edinburgh to show how urban areas contributed to ingenuity. Weiner also walks the same paths as geniuses who once flourished in those settings to uncover the secrets behind Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Socrates. He asks the question, “What was in the air, and can we bottle it?” “The Geography of Genius” is truly an intellectual odyssey. It is smart, original, and redefines how genius came to be.

Growing up in the small suburban city of Lewisville, I have always fantasized about living in a big city with tall skyscrapers, extremely diverse cultures, beautiful sights, and to be frank, heavy traffic accompanied with blaring horns and shouting from drivers with road rage. New York is where I want to live and attend school, not only for its great adventures in the city but, because it is a cradle for the arts in America. At the age of three, I was exposed to the arts

The issue at hand is to find a way to make the creative economy “prosper in all its cultural,

Globally, metropolitan cities that are socially progressive, dense in population, and high in ethnic diversity are becoming creative hubs; thus, changing the framework of infrastructures and economies worldwide. Though the commodification of cultural pluralism was once a niche to specific locations—acting as beacons for content creators—the emergence of diverse cities creates challenges for places like Toronto (that embraced the notion of a 'cultural mosaic' early on) to establish dominance and uniqueness in the creative cultural industries. However, the city’s incorporation of dynamic boroughs like Kensington Market – which offer the allure of authenticity, accessibility and affordability—make Toronto a contender for exemplifying what it

Drivers that have been boosting all these changes is the core to understand the whole process. It is true that the burgeoning restaurants along the Frankford Avenue from Kensington to the riverfront, noisy bars assembled around living music pools, moreover, the narrow alleys filled with creative painting on both sides, are spreading extreme attractiveness to young lives but apparently not all of them. With all these facts, observation, and research of data depicting what’s going on at Fishtown, more questions emerged.

A blue house, red shutters, and a white picket fence with a border collie. Three kids are running around in the front lawn up on a hilltop. That is what the American dream is right? The American dream is truly in the eye of the beholder. One might think that the American dream is an apartment in downtown Los Angeles, but others might want the smell of fresh cut grass in a small suburb. It’s whatever the person who is working for it wants it to be. As we can see in the play, all of the main characters might be striving for an American dream, but none of them are striving for their same American dream.