Can Budapest be the next New York?
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Richard Florida, one of the most famous contemporary social scientist held a lecture at Brain Bar in Budapest. The professor, who’s been famous for the ideologist of the creative class in the early 2000’s, has described the urban transformation in a new concept system. Does the GDP increase from the attraction of the gays? Will Budapest be the next New York? According to Florida, only one of the 3 Ts necessary for the breakthrough (technology, talent, tolerance), from which we don’t have enough (tolerance), hvg.hu said.
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“San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Berlin, London, these cool cities are filling up slowly, and the creative class will go on to other places, like Budapest” – Richard Florida said to the audience of Brain Bar.
The University of Toronto professor, editor of the Atlantic magazine, leader of an influential think tank exploded into the public consciousness with his bestseller called The Rise of the Creative Class in 2002. In fact, he has been spreading this theory so far, and he has become the prophet of the creatives.
Florida classify people from the engineers through the media workers until the artist into the creative class. Everyone who is engaged in creative work. The cities have to create galleries, popup stores, craft products etc., if they want to attract these people.
According to the professor, the labor market is transforming: in the beginning of the 20th century, only 5% of the people worked in the creative class, while this rate is 40% in the developed regions. Previously, land and capital were the resources, now knowledge became that. The pulling power is more mobile, that’s why the can be “seduced”.