Supporting Structures
Summary
They say, ‘It takes a village to raise a child’. That is true for ideas too.
Key Concepts
- Policy-makers around the world are increasingly drawn to creative enterprises as sources of economic growth and urban redevelopment.
- There are profound and well-documented differences between the way people in the East and West perceive and make sense of the world.
- Place matters because creative people flock to spaces where they can plug into an ecosystem.
- Creative people tend to cluster, that is, live and work in the same geographic space.
- Creative people go to areas where they find tolerance and diversity.