Way behind Boulder and San Francisco but ahead of Minneapolis and just behind Austin in Richard Florida’s ranking for the Daily Beast. Note that Florida is talking about the region.
Florida writes:
The rankings are based on my detailed analysis of more than 350 U.S. metros areas in my newly released book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited. This 2012 Creativity Index, compiled with the help of my colleague, Kevin Stolarick of the Martin Prosperity Institute, is based on a simple formula, which I call the “3Ts of economic development.” The first T is technology, or the ability to create new ideas and inventions and high-tech companies. We measure it as a combination of innovation and high-tech companies. The second T is talent—the skilled, ambitious, and talented people who generate new ideas and create new companies. We measure it by the share of the workforce in the Creative Class. The third T is tolerance in the nonjudgmental environment that attracts open-minded and new-thinking kinds of people across the board. We measure the share of foreign-born people, gays and lesbians, and level of integration in a community.
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5 Responses to Daily Beast: Hartford Metro Area #17 On Top 20 Creative Cities List
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Daily Beast is right. Hartford is right behind Austin?
Austin has SXSW and Austin City Limits. Hartford has Black Eyed Sally’s and Jazz in Bushnell PArk.
I agree there are all sorts of small gems around Hartford–little film festivals, jazz noodling, theater, Real Art Ways, Sunken Gairden, etc.
It has to be the third T. Anyone thinking that herding the minorities and immigrants and gays into Hartford was mistaken. It’s a sign of social tolerance by creating a melting pot of poverty.
And that would be for the spectacular creativity and classical artistry of the gunshot wounds treated by the emergency rooms in Hartford?
For someone who calls himsel Erasmus, you sure are ignorant.
Insurance is “creative”?
If Hartford gets a supermarket, it could move up to #16 ???