Richard Florida was always full of it

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.