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The Flight of the Creative Class
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This article is published in Housing Theory and Society.The article was published on 2006-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 620 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Creative class & Human geography.read more
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Rethinking human capital, creativity and urban growth
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A Dynamic Perspective on Next-Generation Offshoring: The Global Sourcing of Science and Engineering Talent
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A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics.
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Rules of the Game: The Place of Institutions in Regional Economic Change
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