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CREATIVE CITIES
CREATIVE CITIES
Dr. Kevin Stolarick
Sept. 22, 2011
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Standard Timing
Time
3:10-3:20
3:20-3:25
3:25-3:45
3:45-3:50
3:50-4:00
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Activity
Quiz
Peer Grading
Group Discussion Questions/Answers
Announce Selected Question to Class
Break
Discuss Questions in Class
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Quiz Seating
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Quiz Questions
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1. How is regional creative/innovative output
usually measured?
2. Not counting agriculture, Florida divides the
workforce into what 3 classes?
3. Employing a creative workforce
requires what?
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Grading Process
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• Switch within group (#)
– NOT each other
– All pass left or right
• “Graded By”
• Quiz Answers
– 2 points completely correct
– 1 point “mostly” correct
– 4 points for reasonable exam question
• Total Score Upper Left
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Quiz Answers
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1. How is regional creative/innovative output
usually measured?
 Patents
2. Not counting agriculture, Florida divides the
workforce into what 3 classes?
 Creative, Service, Working
3. Employing a creative workforce requires
what?
 Flexibility (any good answer is OK)
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Pick Your Favourite CREATIVE CITIES
Question
• Within your group
• Discuss each question
• Pick group’s favourite
– Your selection makes it eligible for use
– Mark with a big star
• Person never announced before
– Announce selected question
• Turn in all cards before break
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Break
10 Minutes
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Selected Questions
And Answers
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Selected Questions CREATIVE CITIES
• What are the working characteristics of the
creative class which allow a soft control
environment to function efficiently?
• How odes the no-collar workplace encourage
creativity and what is one barrier that
challenges the new workplace model?
• What did Richard Florida find when studying
creative students in Pittsburgh? How can this
phenomenon be explained?
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Selected Questions CREATIVE CITIES
• What are the factors that make up the
Creativity Index? Explain the purpose of each.
• What are the four happy talk themes that
Richard Florida pointed out regarding the
creative age?
• How can a stable economy be mainly built on
creative jobs, which often provide little
reliability or consistency?
• What barriers can impede creative economies?
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Selected Questions CREATIVE CITIES
• Explain the geography of creativity. What are
the defining characteristics of the different
classes and where are they geographically
located (in the US)?
• Identify and explain the new form of
segregation emerging in the US.
• What criticisms have been levelled against
Florida’s creative class argument for economic
development?
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