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Cities that want to grow had better be creative. Or so says Carnegie Mellon economist Richard Florida. In The Rise of the Creative Class (June 2002), he argues that the cities that appeal to the creative vanguard will prosper in an economy driven by inventiveness. Florida ranked the nation's cities on a "creativity index," combining measures of regional workforce makeup, innovation, the Milken Institute's Tech-Pole High Tech Location Quotient, and (as a proxy for tolerance and diversity) gay population concentrations.
The Most Creative Places
1. San Francisco-Silicon Valley
2. Austin
3. San Diego
4. Boston
5. Seattle
6. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
7. Houston
8. Baltimore-Washington
9. New York
10. Dallas
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