Find Your Inner Austin -- Creative Class

Link: The View From Florida-Ville - Richard Florida - Creative Class.

In 2002, a then-obscure academic named Richard Florida published The Rise of the Creative Class, which argued that knowledge workers were attracted to cities that offered the rare combination of "technology, talent, and tolerance," and that high-paying jobs and economic vitality were following them to these hubs of creativity.

The book became an unlikely best-seller, turning Florida into the world's most renowned professor of regional economic development. He has since penned a follow-up, The Flight of the Creative Class–which posits that the United States stands to lose global talent to countries that are more open and inclusive–and he's now working on a third book about how people choose where they live.
But nearly five years later, it's still Florida's original conceit that has legs. Everywhere you look, cities big and small are trying to get in touch with their inner Austin....

(((Most cities aren't real likely to get in touch with their inner Austin, especially by trying to attract people from Austin. I've got an alternate strategy for urban prosperity, though, and I think it might work great.
Instead of trying hard to attract hip metrosexual creatives to your town, why not find stuffy, philistine breadhead creeps like the author of this
FAST COMPANY article, and ride them out of your town on a rail? Housing costs would drop immediately and, in the sudden absence of him and his ilk, the quality of everyday life would skyrocket!)))