The Street: Richard Florida is not the Messiah

Attracting the creative class to cities is important, but what they do once they get there is what really matters.

In a recent post on the Street blog, Hayley Richardson asks "how we can harness the power of the so-called creative class to transcend the aesthetic".

As an example, she tells her story of a recent trip to New Hampshire where she was asked what she is doing to better her community of Philadelphia, and she realized that she didn't know the names of her community council members and had never even attended a city council meeting.