Patrick Ishmael has an excellent series of blogs (
1,
2,
3) about the emptiness of Richard Florida's claims that the creative class is a key to urban growth. Florida's research is extremely flimsy and it's shameful that it has received anything more than a snicker (
Ed Glaeser has it right). Ishmael shows how the hipster model of growth is bound to fail and has failed in St. Louis.