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a standout resume is vital.

“You need to separate yourself from the pack.”

Job hunters should also reach out to everyone they know—friends, former coworkers, old classmates, consultants, contractors.

spending up to 10 hours a day hunting for a position

The occasional job opening she does spot typically requires five-plus years of experience. “Getting a job is harder and harder,” she says. “There are fewer and fewer jobs.”

members of the Creative Class value meritocracy, diversity and individuality, and look for these characteristics when they relocat

For a city to attract the Creative Class, he argues, it must possess "the three 'T's": Talent (a highly talented/educated/skilled population), Tolerance (a diverse community, which has a 'live and let live' ethos), and Technology (the technological infrastructure necessary to fuel an entrepreneurial culture)

“the Creative Class share of the workforce; innovation, measured as patents per capita; high tech industry, using the Milken Institute's widely accepted Tech Pole Index…; and diversity, measured by the Gay Index, a reasonable proxy for an area’s openness"

Creative workers are looking for cultural, social, and technological climates in which they feel they can best "be themselves".

active participation in a variety of experiential activities.

Street Level Culture

hard to draw the line between participant and observer, or between creativity and its creators”

interest in being participants and not spectators

40 million workers—30 percent of the U.S. workforce

Super-Creative Core: This group comprises about 12 percent of all U.S. jobs. It includes a wide range of occupations (e.g. science, engineering, education, computer programming, research), with arts, design, and media workers forming a small subset. Florida considers those belonging to this group to “fully engage in the creative process” (2002, p. 69). The Super-Creative Core is considered innovative, creating commercial products and consumer goods. The primary job function of its members is to be creative and innovative. “Along with problem solving, their work may entail problem finding”

knowledge-based workers

Florida argues that the Creative Class is socially relevant because of its members' ability to spur regional economic growth through innovation (2002).

these usually require a high degree of formal education

Check out the great new flyer from Hamiltonians Against Neighborhood Displacement (HAND) about how creative city policies are causing displacement in Hamilton, Ontario.  If you are interested in contacting them please let us know.

Place Capital, which posits that the economic value of a robust, dynamic place is much more than the sum of its parts.

Great places are created through many “investments” in Place Capital–everything from individual actions that together build a welcoming sense of place, all the way up to major physical changes that make a space usable and accessible.

Project-driven processes generally lead to places that follow a general protocol without any consideration for local needs or desires.

public space projects

tend to fall into one of four types of development

project-driven processes; top-down, bureaucratic leadership

At its core, Place Capital is about re-connecting economy and community.

design-led process.

eliance on the singular vision of professional designers and other siloed disciplines can often make for spaces that are lovely as objects, but not terribly functional as public gathering places.

place-sensitive. Here, designers and architects are still leading the process, but there is concerted effort to gather community input and ensure that the final design responds to the community that lives, works, and plays around the space.

Finally, there are spaces that are created through a place-led approach, which relies not on community input, but on a unified focus on place outcomes built on community engagement. The people who participate in a place-led development process feel invested in the resulting public space, and are more likely to serve as stewards.

They are involved meaningfully throughout the process

turn proximity into purpose

concept of Place Capital is ideally-suited to guide the cooperation of so many individual movements that are looking for ways to work together to change the world for the better. Place Capital employs the Placemaking process to help us outline clear economic goals that re-frame the way that people think not only about public space but, by extension, about the public good in general.

surge of interest in Placemaking in the United States over the past few decades.