The "Creative Class" is sort of (urban pundit and the article's co-author) Richard Florida's thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class https://en.wik

The "Creative Class" is sort of (urban pundit and the article's co-author) Richard Florida's thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class It tries to make events like gentrification a little more clear by focusing on working-age adult occupations. In particular, regular income/wealth statistics tend to hide trend signals because in-place retirees end up echoing the economics of the past for a long time.