I’d call the inaugural Augusta Free Press/Stone Soup Books discussion series a success, if only because it seems to have spawned a movement.
More on that in a minute. First, the book that we discussed, for those who weren’t able to take part, was The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida, a researcher and development theorist. Florida’s focus in The Rise of the Creative Class is to sell local-government leaders on a new paradigm in economic development.
The Florida paradigm in The Rise of the Creative Class is that there are three T’s to local economic development – technology, talent and tolerance – to which he has recently added a fourth, territorial assets, and that communities that focus on attracting technology and talent by building on tolerance and their local territorial assets will be the winners in the 21st century economy.
Link to column on TheWorldAccordingToChrisGraham.com.
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